Reverend Henry Clay Trumbull

Henry Clay Trumbull was from Stonington, Connecticut, and was educated at Stonington Academy and Williston Seminary. In 1854 he married Alice Cogswell Gallaudet (d. 1891). He was ordained as a Congregational Minister in 1862 and became Chaplain of the Tenth Connecticut Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. Trumbull was captured at the battle of Fort Wagner near Charleston, South Carolina on July 19, 1863. He was held in several Confederate prisons, as a prisoner of war. After being exchanged on November 24, 1863, he rejoined the 10th Connecticut and served with that regiment until it was mustered out of service in August 1865. He became Secretary of the American Sunday School Union until he became editor of The Sunday School Times in 1875. He died 9 December 1903.