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Federal (USV)

Private

Summerfield McNichols

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 88th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

An 18 year old doctor's son from Philadelphia, he enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company I, 88th Pennsylvania Infantry on 20 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic service from Bates.1 Personal and burial details from the Blue Hen's Chicken & Commonwealth of 1 October 1862; thanks to Tom DeNardo for sharing that to his memorial on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1844 in PA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Philadelphia, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11846]

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