Peter N. Oliphant

(? - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 3rd North Carolina Infantry

In the Antietam Campaign:
Killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.

The remainder of the War:
Originally buried "west of George Line's house in his new ground along side of an old white oak tree near his pond" near the battlefield at Sharpsburg. Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Burial information from Pruett1, fate confirmed in Moore's Roster.

Death Date: 09/17/1862 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 4888]

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