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Federal (USV)

Private

Daniel Reed

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 132nd Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Giving his age as 19, he enlisted on 9 August 1862 in Scranton and mustered as a Private in Company I, 132nd Pennsylvania Infantry at Harrisburg, PA on 16 August.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from Bates1 and the Card File.2 There is memorial for him on Findagrave, and it's possible he's an "unknown" in the Antietam National Cemetery, but there is no record of that. Thanks to descendant Matt George for his birth details, from family records.

Birth

c. 1837; County Antrim, IRELAND

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11384]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 29820]

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