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Month: February 2022

  • Not in Antietam National Cemetery

    There are several stones in the Antietam National Cemetery for men who were actually buried elsewhere.

    Readers occasionally ask about this, and I can never find them when I want them, hence this list.  It will evolve as I learn more.

     Rank Name Unit Death Actual burial place
     Pvt Bridgeman J. Hollister 16th CT Inf  25 Sept 1862  Wassuc Cemetery, Glastonbury, CT
     Pvt Oliver Cromwell Case  8th CT Inf  17 Sept 1862  Simsbury Cemetery, Simsbury, CT
    Pvt Henry Struble  8th PA Reserves 2 June 1926 St. John’s Reformed Cemetery, Greenburg, PA
    Pvt William Ayers Salisbury  34th NY Inf 17 Sept 1862 Norway Rural Cemetery, Norway, NY
    Pvt William H Lewis  34th NY Inf 16 Jan 1916 Oak Hill Cemetery, Herkimer, NY

     
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    The photo of Henry Struble’s marker is from his Find-a-grave memorial, and was contributed by user John in Maryland.

  • The Officers Imprisoned at Columbia, S. C. (1865)

    19 year old Private Wallace R Andrus was promoted to First Sergeant of his Company, “B” of the 16th Connecticut Infantry, on the field at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

    He was First Lieutenant of Company I by April 1864 when he was captured, along with most of his regiment, at Plymouth, NC. He ended up with many other officers of the 16th in the “prison pens” in Columbia, SC before being paroled and sent north in December 1864.

    The clipping here is an excerpt from a massive 8-column list on page 2 of the New York Times of 6 February 1865, transcribed through OCR online, and in images from the Timesmachine [subscription required].

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    The officers of the 16th listed as Columbia prisoners were:

    Maj. Dewees, 6th Conn.[?]

    Capt. H. Hintz, Co. C, 6th [sic] Conn. [paroled 10 March 65]

    Capt. N. [M] C. Turner, Co. D, 6th Conn. [escaped 15 Feb 65]

    Lieut. John B Clapp, Adjt. 6th Conn. [paroled 30 Nov 64]

    Lieut. Geo. A. Bowers, Co. A, 6th Conn. [paroled 28 Feb 65]

    Lieut. Geo. Johnson, Co. B, 6th Conn. [paroled 30 Nov 64]

    Lieut. H. Landon, Co. D, 6th Conn. [escaped 15 Feb 65]

    Lieut. A.G. Case, Co. E, 6th Conn. [paroled March 65]

    Lieut. E.E. Strong, Co. F, 6th Conn. [paroled 2 March 65, Northeast Ferry, NC]

    Lieut. Wm.G. Miller, Co. G, 6th Conn. [paroled 10 Dec 64, Wilmington, NC]

    Lieut. A.A. Dickerson, Co. H, 6th Conn. [escaped 3 Nov 64]

    Lieut. W.R. Andrus, Co. I, 6th Conn. [paroled 10 Dec 64]

    Lieut. H. Bruns, Co. K, 6th Conn. [paroled 10 Dec 64]

    Lieut. B.F. Blakeslee, Co. G, 6th Conn. [escaped 3 Nov 64]

    Capt. T.F. Burke, Co. A, 6th Conn. [escaped 3 Nov 64]

    Capt. [C.] W. Morse, Co. E, 6th Conn. [escaped 14 Feb 65]

    Capt. T.B. Robinson, Co. K, 6th Conn. [escaped 3 Nov 64]