Person:Oren Knight (9)

BIOGRAPHY: The Connecticut Magazine Volume VIII Edited by Francis Trevelvan Miller Hartford, Conn.: 1903 - 1904 - Page 369

 Captain Oren H. Knight was another of the famous “Second Connecticut Heavies,” and died before he was thirty, of wounds received near Petersburg, Virginia.

MILITARY: American Civil War Soldiers Name: Orrin H Knight , Residence: Salisbury, Connecticut Enlistment Date: 08 August 1862 Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE State Served: Connecticut Unit Numbers: 79 79 Service Record: Enlisted as a Lieutenant 2nd Class on 08 August 1862 Commission in Company B, 2nd Heavy Artillery Regiment Connecticut on 11 September 1862. Transfered on 06 April 1863 from company B to company G Promoted to Full Lieutenant 1st Class on 06 April 1863 (As of Co. G) Transfered on 03 June 1864 from company G to company E Wounded on 22 June 1864 at Petersburg, VA Died of wounds Company B, 2nd Heavy Artillery Regiment Connecticut on 06 July 1864

Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force of the United States Army For the Years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65. Part I (New England States.) Page 263 Connecticut Heavy Artillery. First Lieut, Orrin H. Knight, July 6, 1864, at Transit hospital, N. Y., of wounds received in action near Petersburg, Va.

U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 Name: Oren H. Knight Side: Union Regiment State/Origin: Connecticut Regiment Name: 2 Connecticut H. Art'y. Regiment Name Expanded: 2nd Regiment, Connecticut Heavy Artillery COMPANY: B,G Rank In: Second Lieutenant Rank In Expanded: Second Lieutenant Rank Out: First Lieutenant Rank Out Expanded: First Lieutenant Film Number: M535 roll 9 Source Information: National Park Service. U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007. Original data: National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, online <http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/>, acquired 2007.

CENSUS: 1850 United States Federal Census Name: Oren H Knight Age: 14 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1836 Birth Place: Massachusetts Gender: Male Home in 1850(City,County,State): Peru, Berkshire, Massachusetts Household Members: Name Age Geroganna Knight 24 Nancy S Knight 20 Oren H Knight 14 Rev Joseph Knight 61 William W Knight 16 Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Peru, Berkshire, Massachusetts; Roll: M432_305; Page: 287; Image: 568.

1860 United States Federal Census Name: Oren H Knight Age in 1860: 24 Birth Year: abt 1836 Birthplace: Massachusetts Home in 1860: Stafford, Tolland, Connecticut Gender: Male Post Office: Stafford Household Members: Name Age Joseph Knight 72 Harriet Knight 67 Oren H Knight 24 Source Citation: Year: 1860; Census Place: Stafford, Tolland, Connecticut; Roll: M653_80; Page: 810; Image: 546.