Lyman Buckley Wilcox was born on January 20, 1845. He lived in 1850 with his parents: Lyman, age 32, a manufacturer, and Maria, age 29, and brother Robert, age 1. He enlisted into the 16th Regiment, Company G as a musician on August 13, 1862. He was mentioned in Charlie’s Civil War by Charles Brandegee Livingstone, page 76, 129, 131, 218. He was captured on April 20, 1864 in Plymouth, NC. He served as a prisoner of war in Andersonville. He was pardoned on December 10, 1864. He mustered out on June 24, 19865. By 1870, he lived in New Britain as a book keeper with his wife Adaline, age 21, and daughter Ellie, age 1. According to the 1881 affidavit on his mother’s application for a Civil War pension: he returned from imprisonment a broken down man in mind and body. He died on May 29, 1875 at age 30 and was buried in Maple Cemetery. “Lay him in the suns splendid sorrow That a Christian hath departed”
His letters have been gathered into a book: Field Music: From Antietam to Andersonville: The Civil War Letters of Lyman B. Wilcox by Sarah M. Caliandri, Lisa M. Jacobs, and Nancy A. Moran - Berlin Historical Society, c2012
Roster: 16th Regiment, Company G
Berlin Connection: when enlisted gave residence =- Berlin
Berlin Connecticut: Maple Cemetery
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