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Federal (USV)

Private

Samuel Porter Webster

(1819 - ?)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A 44 year old stone layer in Tolland, he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 13 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was listed as a deserter at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists.

He married Mary A. Lewis (1819-1880) in April 1840 and they had at least 7 children.

Birth

02/11/1819; Tolland, CT

Notes

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. 661 - 663 [AotW citation 5600]

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 27287]

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