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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

John Hewes Taylor

(1831 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Pennsylvania Reserves

Before Antietam

A 30 year old carpenter from Chester, PA, he enrolled on 31 May 1861 and mustered into service as 2nd Lieutenant of Company C, First Pennsylvania Reserves on 5 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from Sypher1 and the Card File.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

01/02/1831; Chester, PA

Death

09/14/1862; Turner's Gap, MD; burial in Chester Rural Cemetery, Chester, PA

Notes

1 Sypher, Josiah Rhinehart, History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr and Company, 1865, pg. 566 [AotW citation 28763]

2 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 28764]

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