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Federal (USV)

Private

Seymour Van Sickler

(c. 1819 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 78th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 43, he enlisted 7 February 1862 in Van Buren, IN, and mustered as Private, Company K, 78th New York Infantry on 8 March.

On the Campaign

He died of disease in a hospital in Frederick, MD on 10 September 1862.

After the War

Originally buried in Frederick, his remains were removed to the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Death and burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. His service from the Adjutant General.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave, as Seymour Van Sickles.

Birth

c. 1819

Death

09/10/1862; 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 4295]

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, For the Year 1901, Ser. No. 29, pg. 780 [AotW citation 22426]

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