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Horace Lay
American, 1823 - 1862
BiographyAccording to the Civil War Manuscripts Project at the Connecticut Historical Society Library, Horace Lay (1823?-1862) of Hartford was a shoemaker and private in the Sixteenth Connecticut Infantry, Company I. He enlisted on 1 August 1862 and was mustered-in with his unit on 24 August 1862. He was wounded in the battle of Antietam on 17 September 1862 and died a few weeks later.
The CHS Library contains one letter written by Lay from Leesboro, MD to his wife (MS Civil War Box II, Letters)
The CHS Library contains one letter written by Lay from Leesboro, MD to his wife (MS Civil War Box II, Letters)
Person TypeIndividual
American, 1830 - 1903