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(1843 - 1862)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 16 year old farmer on his father James' place at Stafford in Tolland County, CT. He enlisted two years later as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 12 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded - hit in six places including both legs, left arm, lower abdomen, and back - in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was left wounded on the field for most of two days afterward, treated at a hospital on the field, including some poor surgery on his left arm, then moved to the hospital in the German Reformed Church in Sharpsburg on 5 October. He died there on at 3:00 PM on 11 October 1862.
References & notes
His service from Ingersoll,1 who says he died of wounds on 25 September 1862, and the Record.2. Wound and hospital details from Nelson,3 quoting from the casebook of Surgeon E.M. McDowell. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone also has his death on 25 September 1862.
More on the Web
See more about Brooks and his burial place in a blog post by John Banks.
Birth
10/02/1843; Stafford, CT
Death
10/11/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Moose Meadow Cemetery, Willington, CT
1 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pp. 660 - 663 [AotW citation 5593]
2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pg. 635 [AotW citation 27255]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pp. 62-63, 143 [AotW citation 27256]