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E.E. Rankin
(1836 - 1911)
Home State: Massachusetts
Command Billet: Company Commander
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
From Hartford, he enrolled as Captain, Company C, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 1 August 1862 and mustered on 24 August.
On the Campaign
He led his Company in Maryland in 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in action again at Fredericksburg, VA in December, but resigned on 23 January 1863.
After the War
In 1865 he was an armorer in Springfield, MA (the US Government Armory was there) but by 1870 he was a store clerk in Medford, Middlesex County, MA. In 1880 was the keeper of the alms house in Concord, MA.
References & notes
Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 The Connecticut Adjutant General's Report of 1866, as E. Everett Rankin, says he was dishonorably discharged in January 1863. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870 and 1880, and the Massachusetts State Census of 1865. His gravesite is on Findagrave. The photograph here from a CDV auctioned by Cowan's in 2006.
He married Emeline Loring "Emma" Mansfield (1835-1912) in 1864 and they had 6 sons.
Birth
1836; Montague, MA
Death
1911; burial in Groton Cemetery, Groton, MA
1 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pg. 648 [AotW citation 9771]
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. 623 [AotW citation 27033]