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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Andrew O'Brien

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 69th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted in Philadelphia on 19 August 1861 and mustered at Camp Observation, MD on 31 October as a Private in Company F, 69th Pennsylvania Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was killed by a gunshot to his head in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Bates1 and the Card File.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840; County Wexford, IRELAND

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Old Saint Matthew Cemetery, Conshohocken, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11652]

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 32286]

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