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Federal (USV)

Private

Elias Smith

(1832 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 33rd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 29, he enlisted on 13 May 1861 at Castile, NY to serve two years and mustered as a Private in Company F, 33rd New York Infantry on 22 May.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from the State of New York.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

06/01/1832 in NY

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Hope Cemetery, Castile, NY

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, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 22, p. 127 [AotW citation 10767]

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