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Federal (USV)

Private

Spencer H. Hovey

(c. 1822 - 1862)

Home State: Michigan

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 17th Michigan Infantry

Before Antietam

From Augusta, he enlisted in Company D, 17th Michigan Infantry on 7 August 1862 at Kalamazoo, age 40.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service data from the State of Michigan2, which says his name was Samuel H. Hovey.

Birth

c. 1822

Death

09/14/1862; Fox's Gap, 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 3656]

2 State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915, Vol. 17, pg. 51 [AotW citation 11990]

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