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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Myers Dailey

(c. 1833 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 28 year old farmer in Morgantown, he enlisted and mustered as Private, Company C, 4th Pennsylvania Infantry on 20 April 1861, for 3 months' service. He mustered out on 27 July 1861. He enlisted again and mustered as Private, Company A, 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry on 18 September 1861.

On the Campaign

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

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial on the battlefield to the National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 which has him as a Corporal. Service information from the Card File.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1833

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 3395]

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 23233]