More than 50 Cornwall soldiers were killed in battle, died from their wounds, or died from disease contracted during their service. They represented approximately 3% of the town’s total population in 1860, and about 28% of the Cornwall men who served during the war
Name & Regiment | Date of Death | Cause of Death | Place of Death | Burial Location |
John Bennett 5th C.V.I. |
October 20, 1861 | Typhoid fever | Baltimore, MD | Loudon Park National Cemetery |
Henry C. Ford 11th C.V.I. |
January 16, 1862 | Typhoid fever or measles | At sea | At sea |
John Mills 8th C.V.I. |
January 21, 1862 | Disease? | ||
Martin Scoville 8th C.V.I. |
March 18, 1862 | Typhoid fever | New Bern, NC | New Bern National Cemetery |
George Bunnell 7th C.V.I. |
March 27, 1862 | Typhoid fever | Beaufort, SC | Beaufort National Cemetery |
John R. Vaill 6th C.V.I. |
July 5, 1862 | Typhoid fever | Hilton Head, SC | Beaufort National Cemetery |
Henry Fieldsend 5th C.V.I. |
August 18, 1862 | Complications from wound | Virginia | |
Crawford Nodine 5th C.V.I. |
September 3, 1862 | Complications from wound | Alexandria, VA | North Cornwall Cemetery |
George Pendleton 1st C.H.A. |
September 11, 1862 | Chronic diarrhea | Washington, DC | Cornwall Cemetery |
Henry Morse 8th C.V.I. |
September 17, 1862 | Killed in battle | Antietam battlefield, MD | Antietam National Cemetery (presumed) |
Isaac F. Nettleton 13th C.V.I. |
September 27, 1862 | Typhoid fever | New Orleans, LA | |
Myron Hubbell 19th C.V.I. |
November 24, 1862 | Infection of the stomach | Alexandria, VA | North Cornwall Cemetery |
Philo L. Cole 19th C.V.I. |
January 6, 1863 | Measles | Alexandria, VA | Cornwall Cemetery |
Lucien Rouse 19th C.V.I. |
January 9, 1863 | Disease? | Alexandria, VA | Old Warren Center Cemetery |
Edward Nickerson 13th C.V.I. |
April 14, 1863 | Killed in battle | Irish Bend, LA | |
William N. Ford 3rd U.S. |
December 9, 1863 | Infected hip (morbus coxarious) |
Covington, KY | Camp Nelson National Cemetery |
Peter Howard 29th C.V.I. |
December 12, 1863 | Disease? | Cornwall, CT | |
Charles Henry Frink 11th C.V.I. |
January 24, 1864 | Murdered while on furlough | Sharon, CT | |
Orlando Pritchard 14th C.V.I. |
February 16, 1864 | Complications from wound | Richmond, VA prison camp | Richmond National Cemetery |
James Sterling 7th C.V.I. |
February 25, 1864 | Complications from wound | Beaufort, SC | Beaufort National Cemetery |
Charles Hotchkiss 13th C.V.I. |
March 19, 1864 | Chronic diarrhea | New Orleans, LA | New Orleans, LA |
John McGowan 13th C.V.I. |
April 26, 1864 | Not stated | In transit | |
Harvey L. Ford 2nd C.H.A. |
April 27, 1864 | Typhoid fever | Alexandria, VA | Cornwall Hollow Cemetery |
John Sedgwick 6th Corps |
May 9, 1864 | Killed in battle | Spotsylvania Courthouse, VA | Cornwall Hollow Cemetery |
George R. Hopkins 5th C.V.I. |
May 17, 1864 | Complications from wound | Resaca, GA | Chattanooga National Cemetery |
Norman Mansfield 2nd C.H.A. |
May 30, 1864 | Complications from amputation of leg | Washington, DC | Arlington National Cemetery |
Joseph Payne 2nd C.H.A. |
June 1, 1864 | Killed in battle | Cold Harbor battlefield, VA | Cold Harbor National Cemetery |
Pascal North 2nd C.H.A. |
June 25, 1864 | Acute dysentery | Washington, DC | Cornwall Cemetery |
Herman Bonney 2nd C.H.A. |
June 28, 1864 | Septicemia from gunshot wound | Philadelphia, PA | Calhoun Cemetery |
Amos T. Allen 11th C.V.I. |
July 6, 1864 | Complications from amputation of leg | Washington, DC | North Cornwall Cemetery |
Horace Sickmund 2nd C.H.A. |
July 14, 1864 | Complications from wound | Washington, DC | Calhoun Cemetery (exhumed from Washington, D.C. on November 27, 1864) |
Lewis Sawyer 2nd C.H.A. |
August 24, 1864 | Cerebritis (brain inflammation) | Washington, DC | Calhoun Cemetery |
Allen Williams 2nd C.H.A. |
August 25, 1864 | Chronic diarrhea | Blackwell’s Island, NY | Cypress Hills National Cemetery |
Martin Hull 16th C.V.I. |
August 27, 1864 | Disease, malnutrition | Andersonville prison camp | Andersonville National Cemetery Name inscribed on family tombstone at Cornwall Hollow Cemetery |
Henry Peck 2nd C.H.A. |
September 19, 1864 | Killed in battle | Winchester battlefield, VA | Winchester National Cemetery (presumed) |
William Cogswell 2nd C.H.A. |
October 7, 1864 | Complications from amputation of leg | Winchester, VA | North Cornwall Cemetery |
George Page 2nd C.H.A. |
October 19, 1864 | Killed in battle | Cedar Creek battlefield, VA | Calhoun Cemetery |
Charles Reed 2nd C.H.A. |
October 19, 1864 | Killed in battle | Cedar Creek battlefield, VA | Town Hill Cemetery, Salisbury |
Elisha Soule 2nd C.H.A. |
October 19, 1864 | Killed in battle | Cedar Creek battlefield, VA | |
Patrick Troy 2nd C.H.A. |
October 20, 1864 | Complications from amputation of arm | Baltimore, MD | |
James Van Buren 2nd C.H.A. |
November 1, 1864 | Complications from amputation of leg | Sandy Hook, MD | |
Henry L. Vaill 2nd C.H.A. |
November 4, 1864 | Complications from wounds | Winchester, VA | Cornwall Hollow Cemetery |
William White 2nd C.H.A. |
December 16, 1864 | Typhoid fever and chronic diarrhea | Washington, DC | Arlington National Cemetery |
Tracy A. Bristol 5th C.V.I. |
January 8, 1865 | Florence Stockade prison camp | ||
William R. Payne 11th C.V.I. |
February 20, 1865 | Disease contracted during service | Cornwall, CT | Cornwall Cemetery |
Jacob Eaton 7th C.V.I. |
March 20, 1865 | Disease | Wilmington, NC | Cornwall Cemetery |
Albert Robinson 2nd C.H.A. |
March 26, 1865 | Chronic diarrhea | Baltimore, MD | Calhoun Cemetery |
William Slover 2nd C.H.A. |
July 27, 1865 | Drowned | Washington, DC | Ellsworth Burying Ground, Sharon |
George Henry Green 29th C.V.I. |
August 21, 1865 | Scurvy | Brownsville, TX | Brownsville National Cemetery |
Charles McCormick 5th C.V.I. |
September 17, 1865 | Disease contracted during service | Cornwall, CT | North Cornwall Cemetery |
William B. North 18th C.V.I. |
March 18, 1866 | Disease contracted during service | Cornwall, CT | Cornwall Cemetery |
Thomas Sherman 2nd C.H.A. |
1866 | Disease contracted during service | Cornwall, CT | Cornwall Cemetery |