John Dunn

(c. 1842 - 1862)
Home State: Ohio
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 23rd Ohio Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
Mustered as Private in Company A, 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry on 11 June 1861 at age 19.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was killed in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The remainder of the War:
Reinterred from burial on South Mountain to the National Cemetery sometime during or before 1867.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service details from the Ohio Roster2.

Death Date: 09/14/1862 Death Place: South Mountain, MD Burial Place: 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 3451]

2 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 3, pg. 76 [AotW citation 7817]

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