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Federal (USV)

Private

Ephraim Meacham

(c. 1828 - 1862)

Home State: Michigan

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 17th Michigan Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 24, from Delta, MI, he enlisted on 12 August in Lansing, and mustered as Private, Company F, 17th Michigan Infantry on 26 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action "during the charge on Drayton's South Carolina Brigade" at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

Service from Record of Service.1

Birth

c. 1828

Death

09/14/1862; Fox's Gap, MD

Notes

1 State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915, Vol. 17, pg. 71 [AotW citation 20166]

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