Reuben Baden

Home State: Louisiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 15th Louisiana Infantry

In the Antietam Campaign:
Probably mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.

The remainder of the War:
Died at "Lavinia Grove's Farm". Originally buried on the field at Sharpsburg near "Mrs. Lucker's" [Locker's] barn. Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Burial information from Pruett1, who has him in the 5th Infantry. Unit data from Booth2.

Death Place: Sharpsburg, MD Burial Place: Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials , Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4544]

2 Booth, Andrew B., Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, 3 Volumes, New Orleans: State of Louisiana, 1920, Vol. 1, pg. 101 [AotW citation 5056]

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