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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Samuel B. Pollay

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 108th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He was 22 years old when he enlisted in Bochester, and he mustered in as Corporal, Company K, 108th New York Infantry on 28 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was probably originally buried on or near the battlefield, and reinterred in the National Cemetery during or before 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1, which lists him as Private Samuel B. Pollan. Service details from the State of New York2.

Birth

c. 1840

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 4036]

2 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 34 (for the year 1903), pg. 277 [AotW citation 8963]

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