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Federal (USV)

Private

Richard Ross

(c. 1822 - 1862)

Home State: Michigan

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 17th Michigan Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 40, from Detroit, MI, he enlisted on 18 July 1862 in Detroit and mustered as Private, Company F, 17th Michigan Infantry on 26 August.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Service from the Record of Service.1

Birth

c. 1822

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, 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. 89  [AotW citation 20210]