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Federal (USV)

Private

Mitchell Lank

(? - 1862)

Home State: Delaware

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Delaware Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted as Private, Company C, 3rd Delaware Infantry on 30 December 1861 in Camden, DE.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds in Frederick, MD on 26 December 1862. He was reinterred from burial in Frederick, MD to the National Cemetery after the War.

References & notes

Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 which has him as W. Lank, Company G. Service from his Compiled Military Service Records (via the Historical Data Systems database).

Death

12/26/1862; 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 3762]