He was the son of Charles Blakeslee & Dorothy Jones Eddy.

Before Antietam From Hartford, he enlisted in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry, and mustered as Corporal on 15 July 1862.
On the Campaign He was wounded in the head in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
He was wounded again in the head in the Wilderness, VA on 5 May 1863.
He was promoted to Lieutenant, Company G, in 1864.
He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864 and held at Camp Oglethorpe, GA, Savannah, GA, the Roper Hospital in Charleston, SC and at Camp Sorghum, SC. He escaped with a group of officers on 3 November 1864 and got to Union forces on the Atlantic; rescued by USS Canandaigua on 11 November.
He was with his Company to the end of the War and mustered out on 24 June 1865.

After the War He was a stockbroker and government official in Hartford. He was admitted to the Retreat for the Insane, Hartford in 1891, and died there in 1895.

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He was the son of Charles Blakeslee & Dorothy Jones Eddy.

Before Antietam From Hartford, he enlisted in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry, and mustered as Corporal on 15 July 1862.
On the Campaign He was wounded in the head in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
He was wounded again in the head in the Wilderness, VA on 5 May 1863.
He was promoted to Lieutenant, Company G, in 1864.
He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864 and held at Camp Oglethorpe, GA, Savannah, GA, the Roper Hospital in Charleston, SC and at Camp Sorghum, SC. He escaped with a group of officers on 3 November 1864 and got to Union forces on the Atlantic; rescued by USS Canandaigua on 11 November.
He was with his Company to the end of the War and mustered out on 24 June 1865.

After the War He was a stockbroker and government official in Hartford. He was admitted to the Retreat for the Insane, Hartford in 1891, and died there in 1895.

Contributor: A Marines Daughter (47318984)