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Federal (USV)

Private

Wales Theodore Bunnell

(1835 - 1903)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 26 year old painter living with his brother Giles, a cabinet maker, in Bristol, CT and he enlisted as a Private in Company K, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 11 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

After the War

By 1870 he was a farmer in Burlington, CT, but was painting houses there in 1880.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Juliette E. "Julia" Butler (1836-1916) in December 1859 in Hartford and they had 4 children.

Birth

05/1835; Burlington, CT

Death

11/23/1903; Burlington, CT; burial in Milford Street Cemetery, Burlington, 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 5604]

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. 637 [AotW citation 27329]

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