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