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Gravestone of Private Daniel H. Otis in Maromas Cemetery in Middletown, Conn.
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| Daniel H. Otis |
As 15-year-old Daniel H. Otis crossed a bridge over a millrace during the first wave of attacks on Marye's Heights at Fredericksburg on Dec. 13, 1862, the 14th Connecticut private suffered a mortal wound from an artillery shell. The youngest soldier in the regiment died four days later. Daniel's broken-hearted father, Erastus, recovered the remains for re-burial in a small cemetery in Middletown, Conn. Erastus died on Aug. 4, 1864 — the second anniversary's of his son's enlistment in the U.S. Army. On the 155th anniversary of Daniel's wounding, I visited the teen's grave in
Maromas Cemetery (watch video below).
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