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(c. 1822 - 1862)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 38 year old farmer in Avon, CT. He enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 28 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of his wounds on 25 September 1862.
References & notes
His service from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite and a memorial cenotaph in Guilford, CT are on Findagrave.
He married Maria L. Hamlin (1832-1922) in May 1849 and they had 6 children.
Birth
c. 1822; Unionville, CT
Death
09/25/1862; burial in West Avon Cemetery, Avon, 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 5596]
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. 636 [AotW citation 27276]