VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR
(Co. F. 16th Regt. Conn. Vols.)
John H(oward) PERRY enlisted in Company F, 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry on July 12, 1862 and actually left on active duty on August 24, 1862. He was wounded "in the ancle" at the Battle of Antietam, or Sharpsburg, on September 17, 1862, remained on the field for "40 hours" before being picked-up after the Confederates retreated back over the Potomac, and was transferred to a hospital in New Haven, Connecticut where he remained until being transferred to Company I, 4th Regiment, Veterans Reserve Corps, on September 26, 1864. He served in the infirmary at The Rock Island, Illinois, prisoner of war camp until discharged on July 15, 1865. Married Louisa Elizabeth BRINLEY of Tennessee in 1882 and settled in the Nashville area where he worked as a house painter.
Aged 23 years.
(Co. F. 16th Regt. Conn. Vols.)
John H(oward) PERRY enlisted in Company F, 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry on July 12, 1862 and actually left on active duty on August 24, 1862. He was wounded "in the ancle" at the Battle of Antietam, or Sharpsburg, on September 17, 1862, remained on the field for "40 hours" before being picked-up after the Confederates retreated back over the Potomac, and was transferred to a hospital in New Haven, Connecticut where he remained until being transferred to Company I, 4th Regiment, Veterans Reserve Corps, on September 26, 1864. He served in the infirmary at The Rock Island, Illinois, prisoner of war camp until discharged on July 15, 1865. Married Louisa Elizabeth BRINLEY of Tennessee in 1882 and settled in the Nashville area where he worked as a house painter.
Aged 23 years.
VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR
(Co. F. 16th Regt. Conn. Vols.)
John H(oward) PERRY enlisted in Company F, 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry on July 12, 1862 and actually left on active duty on August 24, 1862. He was wounded "in the ancle" at the Battle of Antietam, or Sharpsburg, on September 17, 1862, remained on the field for "40 hours" before being picked-up after the Confederates retreated back over the Potomac, and was transferred to a hospital in New Haven, Connecticut where he remained until being transferred to Company I, 4th Regiment, Veterans Reserve Corps, on September 26, 1864. He served in the infirmary at The Rock Island, Illinois, prisoner of war camp until discharged on July 15, 1865. Married Louisa Elizabeth BRINLEY of Tennessee in 1882 and settled in the Nashville area where he worked as a house painter.
Aged 23 years.
(Co. F. 16th Regt. Conn. Vols.)
John H(oward) PERRY enlisted in Company F, 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry on July 12, 1862 and actually left on active duty on August 24, 1862. He was wounded "in the ancle" at the Battle of Antietam, or Sharpsburg, on September 17, 1862, remained on the field for "40 hours" before being picked-up after the Confederates retreated back over the Potomac, and was transferred to a hospital in New Haven, Connecticut where he remained until being transferred to Company I, 4th Regiment, Veterans Reserve Corps, on September 26, 1864. He served in the infirmary at The Rock Island, Illinois, prisoner of war camp until discharged on July 15, 1865. Married Louisa Elizabeth BRINLEY of Tennessee in 1882 and settled in the Nashville area where he worked as a house painter.
Aged 23 years.
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