Major
Company D
1st Heavy Artillery
Connecticut Volunteers
Promoted to Captain of Company I
Bela Peck Learned, son of Ebenezer Learned (B.A. Yale 1831) and Matilda Denison (Hurlbut) Learned, was born March 9, 1837, in Norwich, Conn. After graduation he was in the office of the Norwich Fire Insurance Company until February, 1862. On March 12 of that year he entered the United States Army as Second Lieutenant, First Connecticut Artillery, retiring October 5, 1865, as Captain. He was slightly wounded at Harrison's Landing, Va., July 31, 1862. For meritorious service in the field, April 6, 1865, he was brevetted Major. During the summer of 1864 he was in the fighting at Bermuda Hundred, and then at the siege of Petersburg. On resigning from the army he again engaged in the insurance business. He was active in the Park Congregational Church, and possessed fine taste in music. Major Learned died at his home in Norwich, March 14, 1910, at the age of 73 years. He married at Norwich, October 31, 1867, Mary W., daughter of S. B. and Mary R. Bulkeley, who survives him with a son (B.A. Yale 1899) and two daughters. The elder daughter married Dr. George T. How land (M.D. N. Y. Univ. 1886). His grandfather, Deacon Ebenezer Learned of New London, graduated from Yale College in 1798, and his uncle, Billings Peck Learned, in 1834. His father was one of the incorporators of the Norwich Free Academy and long its treasurer. (Yale University, Obituary Records of Graduates, First Series No. 5, July 1905)
Company D
1st Heavy Artillery
Connecticut Volunteers
Promoted to Captain of Company I
Bela Peck Learned, son of Ebenezer Learned (B.A. Yale 1831) and Matilda Denison (Hurlbut) Learned, was born March 9, 1837, in Norwich, Conn. After graduation he was in the office of the Norwich Fire Insurance Company until February, 1862. On March 12 of that year he entered the United States Army as Second Lieutenant, First Connecticut Artillery, retiring October 5, 1865, as Captain. He was slightly wounded at Harrison's Landing, Va., July 31, 1862. For meritorious service in the field, April 6, 1865, he was brevetted Major. During the summer of 1864 he was in the fighting at Bermuda Hundred, and then at the siege of Petersburg. On resigning from the army he again engaged in the insurance business. He was active in the Park Congregational Church, and possessed fine taste in music. Major Learned died at his home in Norwich, March 14, 1910, at the age of 73 years. He married at Norwich, October 31, 1867, Mary W., daughter of S. B. and Mary R. Bulkeley, who survives him with a son (B.A. Yale 1899) and two daughters. The elder daughter married Dr. George T. How land (M.D. N. Y. Univ. 1886). His grandfather, Deacon Ebenezer Learned of New London, graduated from Yale College in 1798, and his uncle, Billings Peck Learned, in 1834. His father was one of the incorporators of the Norwich Free Academy and long its treasurer. (Yale University, Obituary Records of Graduates, First Series No. 5, July 1905)
Major
Company D
1st Heavy Artillery
Connecticut Volunteers
Promoted to Captain of Company I
Bela Peck Learned, son of Ebenezer Learned (B.A. Yale 1831) and Matilda Denison (Hurlbut) Learned, was born March 9, 1837, in Norwich, Conn. After graduation he was in the office of the Norwich Fire Insurance Company until February, 1862. On March 12 of that year he entered the United States Army as Second Lieutenant, First Connecticut Artillery, retiring October 5, 1865, as Captain. He was slightly wounded at Harrison's Landing, Va., July 31, 1862. For meritorious service in the field, April 6, 1865, he was brevetted Major. During the summer of 1864 he was in the fighting at Bermuda Hundred, and then at the siege of Petersburg. On resigning from the army he again engaged in the insurance business. He was active in the Park Congregational Church, and possessed fine taste in music. Major Learned died at his home in Norwich, March 14, 1910, at the age of 73 years. He married at Norwich, October 31, 1867, Mary W., daughter of S. B. and Mary R. Bulkeley, who survives him with a son (B.A. Yale 1899) and two daughters. The elder daughter married Dr. George T. How land (M.D. N. Y. Univ. 1886). His grandfather, Deacon Ebenezer Learned of New London, graduated from Yale College in 1798, and his uncle, Billings Peck Learned, in 1834. His father was one of the incorporators of the Norwich Free Academy and long its treasurer. (Yale University, Obituary Records of Graduates, First Series No. 5, July 1905)
Company D
1st Heavy Artillery
Connecticut Volunteers
Promoted to Captain of Company I
Bela Peck Learned, son of Ebenezer Learned (B.A. Yale 1831) and Matilda Denison (Hurlbut) Learned, was born March 9, 1837, in Norwich, Conn. After graduation he was in the office of the Norwich Fire Insurance Company until February, 1862. On March 12 of that year he entered the United States Army as Second Lieutenant, First Connecticut Artillery, retiring October 5, 1865, as Captain. He was slightly wounded at Harrison's Landing, Va., July 31, 1862. For meritorious service in the field, April 6, 1865, he was brevetted Major. During the summer of 1864 he was in the fighting at Bermuda Hundred, and then at the siege of Petersburg. On resigning from the army he again engaged in the insurance business. He was active in the Park Congregational Church, and possessed fine taste in music. Major Learned died at his home in Norwich, March 14, 1910, at the age of 73 years. He married at Norwich, October 31, 1867, Mary W., daughter of S. B. and Mary R. Bulkeley, who survives him with a son (B.A. Yale 1899) and two daughters. The elder daughter married Dr. George T. How land (M.D. N. Y. Univ. 1886). His grandfather, Deacon Ebenezer Learned of New London, graduated from Yale College in 1798, and his uncle, Billings Peck Learned, in 1834. His father was one of the incorporators of the Norwich Free Academy and long its treasurer. (Yale University, Obituary Records of Graduates, First Series No. 5, July 1905)
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