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Federal (USV)

Corporal

John A. Bible

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: West Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th West Virginia Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted as a 3rd Corporal in Company I, 7th (West) Virginia Volunteers on 22 November 1861 in Greenland, OH.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the abdomen in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds in a field hospital on or near the battlefield on 18 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Nelson.1 His service from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Death detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862, as John A. Bibbs.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

09/18/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 132 [AotW citation 16419]

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