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Federal (USV)

Private

Jonas Emery

(1834 - 1862)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

From Putnam County, IN, he mustered as Private, Company D, 14th Indiana Infantry on 7 June 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 27 October (or September) 1862. He was reinterred from his original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery, grave #3470, about 1867.

References & notes

Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service from the Adjutant General.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

09/04/1834

Death

10/27/1862; 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 3464]

2 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, pg. 279 [AotW citation 20623]

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