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(1838 - 1927)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 24 year old mechanic in Farmington, he enlisted as a Private in Company K, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 18 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was listed as a deserter on 20 October 1862 with no later military record.
After the War
By 1880 and to at least 1920 he was a mechanic in a clock shop and lived in Forrestville village, Bristol, CT.
References & notes
Birth
04/25/1838; Longmeadow, MA
Death
1927; burial in Forestville Cemetery, Bristol, 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. 661 - 663 [AotW citation 5607]
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. 638 [AotW citation 27338]
3 Gordon, Lesley J., 16th CV [Connecticut Volunteers] database [roster], Published 2014, first accessed 06 February 2022, <https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=D0B38CB5864DA66C!107&authkey=!ACNE422k47Tnc_Q&ithint=file%2cxl> [AotW citation 27339]