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Federal (USV)

Private

John Cavanaugh

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

He was in Company B.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from Commonwealth of Massachusetts1. Age 24, a laborer in Philadelphia, PA on enlistment in June 1861. Discharged for wounds at Smoketown, MD on 11 January 1863.

Notes

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. 10 - 12  [AotW citation 6599]