Ezekiel Starke Talley, Jr.

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

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He had studied at the Universities of Virginia and Maryland before the War.

In the Antietam Campaign:
Killed "instantly" in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The remainder of the War:
Originally buried in "Mrs. Lucker’s barn field near an old well; [graves] have been plowed over." His body later retrieved by his father, Dr. Ezekiel Starke Talley.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Thanks to Adam Zimmerli for the information here. His research sources for Corporal Talley included:
Manarin's 15th Virginia Infantry1; NPS' Soldiers & Sailors Database; Virginia Military Dead2; 15th VA Infantry, Co. I Roster at the Library of Virginia.

Death Date: 09/17/1862 Death Place: Sharpsburg, MD Burial Place: Family Cemetery, Hanover County, VA

Notes

1 Manarin, Louis H., 15th Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1990, pp. 29, 117 [AotW citation 8832]

2 Library of Virginia, Virginia Military Dead Database, Published 2002, first accessed 30 November 2012, <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/vmd/> [AotW citation 8834]

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