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Federal (USV)

Private

DeWitt Clinton Burbank

(1828 - 1862)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

From Avon, WI, he enlisted in Company G, 6th Wisconsin Infantry on 31 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain in Maryland on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of his wounds on 7 October 1862, probably at a US field hospital at Middletown, MD.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial at Middletown, MD to the new National Cemetery about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 as DeWitt Burbank, Company C. His service details from the Roster,2 as DeWitt C. Burbanks. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

08/14/1828; Sardinia, NY

Death

10/07/1862; Middletown, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3267]

2 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, pp. 521 - 523 [AotW citation 10387]

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