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Federal (USV)

Private

Hance Campbell

(1840 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 49th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 20 year old collier from Huntington County, he enlisted 30 August 1861 at Harrisburg, and mustered as Private, Company D, 49th Pennsylvania Infantry on 31 October 1861.

On the Campaign

He was hospitalized for illness about 15 October 1862, and died at a hospital in Hagerstown, MD on 19 October 1862.

The rest of the War

He was probably initially buried in a plot near the Alms House in Hagerstown and later reinterred.

References & notes

Basic information from the card file.1. Death details from an article in the Hagerstown Herald of Freedom & Torch Light of 12 November 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

12/1840

Death

10/07/1862; Hagerstown, MD; burial in Burket Cemetery, Warriors Mark, PA

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 17657]

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