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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Anderson Shannon

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 134th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, from Butler County, he enlisted as a Corporal in Company C, 134th Pennsylvania Infantry on 11 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He died of typhoid fever in a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 5 November 1862.

After the War

He was originally buried in Frederick but was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 as H.Shannon. His service from Bates.2 Hospital detail from the Patient List,3 as Henderson Shannon. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1841; Connoquenessing, PA

Death

11/05/1862; 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 4150]

2   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871  [AotW citation 25103]

3   National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #299  [AotW citation 25104]