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Federal (USV)

Private

John S. Shell

(c. 1831 - 1862)

Home State: West Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th West Virginia Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 30, he enlisted as Private, Company I, 7th West Virginia Infantry on 22 November 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated in the hospital at Smoketown, MD but died there of wounds on 4 November 1862.

After the War

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

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the index to his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database. Wound and hospital details from Nelson.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1831

Death

11/04/1862; Smoketown, 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 4157]

2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 383 [AotW citation 25146]

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