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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

Benjamin V. Vansteenbergh

(? - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 59th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He was in Company E.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Died of wounds, September 22nd/62 at Antietam, MD.

References & notes

Basic information from State of New York1. Thanks to Devan Sommerville for scrubbing through the Report and extracting and transcribing the roster data for AotW.

Death

09/22/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   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, Issue 26 (for the year 1900)  [AotW citation 8815]