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Federal (USA)

Private

Philip Rehill

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: 2nd United States Artillery, Battery M

Before Antietam

A 20 year old laborer, he enlisted as a Private in Battery M, 2nd US Artillery in New York City on 9 July 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 19 September.

References & notes

His service from the Registers of Enlistment,2 which say he was killed outright on 17 September; as Philip Reehil and Reihil. His death date from the Registers of Deaths in the Regular Army. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840; County Cavan, IRELAND

Death

09/19/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 57, p. 19 [AotW citation 30477]

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