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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Charles J. Cross

(c. 1831 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 83rd New York Infantry (9th Militia)

Before Antietam

Enlisted on 1 September 1861 in New York City as Sergeant, Company L, at age 30.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of his wounds on 2 November 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service data from State of New York2.

Birth

c. 1831

Death

11/03/1862; Frederick, 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 3385]

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, Issue 30 (for 1901), pg. 546  [AotW citation 7352]