Civil War Union Soldier of Chinese origin. Brought to the US as a child by a Yankee sea captain and subsequently raised in Clinton, Connecticut, Dardell enlisted in Company A, 27th Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers on October 22, 1862. His commanding officer reported that despite being grazed by a Confederate bullet at the Battle of Chicamauga, Dardell ignored his wound, and glowering at the enemy lines, furiously kept firing to “even the score”. Held as a P.O.W. at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, after being captured with his company at the Battle of Chancellorsville, he went on to participate in the notoriously bloody fight in the Wheat Field at the Battle of Gettysburg. He later returned to Connecticut, where he became a naturalized US citizen in 1880. A tinsmith by profession and a savvy investor in state securities, he became a pillar of the New Haven community, where he remained active in Republican politics, veterans organizations, and Freemasonry. A widower at the time of his death in 1933, he willed his estate of $80,000---a fortune by Depression Era standards---to his three daughters and the local Masonic lodge.
Civil War Union Soldier of Chinese origin. Brought to the US as a child by a Yankee sea captain and subsequently raised in Clinton, Connecticut, Dardell enlisted in Company A, 27th Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers on October 22, 1862. His commanding officer reported that despite being grazed by a Confederate bullet at the Battle of Chicamauga, Dardell ignored his wound, and glowering at the enemy lines, furiously kept firing to “even the score”. Held as a P.O.W. at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, after being captured with his company at the Battle of Chancellorsville, he went on to participate in the notoriously bloody fight in the Wheat Field at the Battle of Gettysburg. He later returned to Connecticut, where he became a naturalized US citizen in 1880. A tinsmith by profession and a savvy investor in state securities, he became a pillar of the New Haven community, where he remained active in Republican politics, veterans organizations, and Freemasonry. A widower at the time of his death in 1933, he willed his estate of $80,000---a fortune by Depression Era standards---to his three daughters and the local Masonic lodge.
Bio by: Nikita Barlow
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