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R. Derby
(1834 - 1862)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 26, a clerk from Boston when commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Company H, on 19 April 1861. Promoted First Lieutenant on 22 November 1861 and Captain, Company C, 6 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
Originally buried near the battlefield, he was reinterred sometime later in Massachusetts.
References & notes
Basic information from Commonwealth of Massachusetts1, with details from Susan Harnwell's 15th Massachusetts genealogy. Photograph from a CDV sold in 2006 by Cowan's Auctions.
Birth
10/03/1834; Medfield, MA
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Medfield, MA
1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pp. 184 - 185 [AotW citation 5861]