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Federal (USV)

Private

James Murray

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 69th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 24, he enlisted at New York City to serve three years, and mustered in as Private, Company B, 69th New York Infantry on 26 August 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD, and died of wounds there on 7 October 1862.

References & notes

Service information from the Roster.1 Wound detail from Nelson.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1838

Death

10/07/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Saint John's Cemetery, Fredrick, MD

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1901, Ser. No. 28, pg. 260 [AotW citation 18047]

2 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. 333 [AotW citation 18049]

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