Civil War

The Civil War in the United States began in 1861, after decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states’ rights and westward expansion. The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 caused seven southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America; four more states soon joined them. The War Between the States, as the Civil War was also known, ended in Confederate surrender in 1865. The conflict was the costliest and deadliest war ever fought on American soil, with some 620,000 of 2.4 million soldiers killed, millions more injured and much of the South left in ruin.

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The list below are the Norwalk residents who died during the war. Not all were killed in action. Several died of disease or from wounds received. Officially:

Killed or Mortally Wounded: 33
Died as a Prisoner of War: 8
Died of Disease: 46
TOTAL WHO DIED DURING THE WAR: 87

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IN ADDITION:
Disabled: 93
Deserted: 89
Discharged: 117
Mustered Out: 422

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Private Joseph H. Armstrong	Private Lewis Hayden Arnold II
Private Stanton Babcock	Private Wesley Banks
Private Nelson Beach	Private Lewis Beecher
Corporal Charles Sanford Beers	Private George Beers
Private Theodore B. Benedict	Private Alfred Blackman
Private William Levi Bodwell	Private William Boyle
Corporal Oliver Sammis Brady	Corporal Thomas D. Brown
Private James L. Brundage	Private Giles Peter Buell
Corporal Henry Burns	Private Patrick Burns
Private John T. Byxbee	Private John Callahan
Corporal Samuel Clark	Private William Clark
Private John Cockafur	Private Sherman B. Dayton
Sergeant Justice Disbrow	Private George Dixon
Private Thomas F. Dowd	Corporal William Dunn
Private Stephen Harrison Ferris	Private Edward Hawley Fitch
Lieutenant Colonel Douglass D. Fowler	Private William Grames
Corporal Minot C. Hale	Private Benjamin F. Hanford
Private George B. Hendricks	Private Edwin Holly
Lieutenant Thomas Hooton	Private George Alfred Hoyt
Corporal William Hoyt	Sergeant William B. Hurd
Private Charles G. Hyatt	Private Henry Jackson
Private John Wesley Jackson	Captain Gould James Jennings
Private Bernhardt Kierchoff	Private James Lintan
Private Joshua Lounsbury	Corporal Melancthon S. Lyon
First Sergeant George Macauless	Corporal William Malkin
Private George F. Marvin	Private Thomas McCue
Private Thomas McLaughlin	Private Charles E. Merrill
Private John W. Metcalf	Private Peter Monehan
Private James Murphy	Private Owen Murphy
Corporal Cornelius Nash	Private Wilbur Nash
Private Calvin Nobles	Private Oscar O. Olmstead
Private Eusibe Ouimet	Private Carl Pample
Private Charles H. Pierce	Private Peter Pound
Sergeant Henry M. Prowitt Jr	Private Henry M. Raymond
Corporal Cornelius Reardon	Private John Roach
Private Charles B. Scribner	Private William Smedley
Sgt Edwin R. Smith	Corporal Oscar L. Smith
Private Talcut B. Smith	Private C. Henry Taylor
Private Henry S. Taylor	Private Richmond E. Thomas
Private George O. Tuttle	Corporal James Waterworth
Private Fennimore C. Weeks	Corporal William Wood Westlake
Private Frederick F. Wheeler	Private Nathan Sylvester Wheeler
Lieutenant Colonel Albert H. Wilcoxson	Private Henry F. Williams
Private John Youngs

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