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Federal (USV)

Private

Myron Chamberlain

(c. 1836 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 51st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted in Company I, 51st New York Infantry on 7 October 1861 at Schenevus, NY, at age 25.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service from the New York AG.2 There's also a Myron Chamberlain (1829-1868) buried in Schenevus, NY.

Birth

c. 1836

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 3318]

2   State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1900, Serial No. 25, pg. 35  [AotW citation 17278]