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Federal (USA)

Lieutenant

John Walsh Gray

(? - 1862)

Home State: California

Command Billet: Company Commander

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd and 10th United States Infantry

Before Antietam

He was commissioned First Lieutenant, 11th United States Infantry on 14 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He commanded Company F of the 2nd US Infantry at Antietam.

The rest of the War

He died of typhoid fever at the Seminary Hospital in Georgetown, DC on 15 December 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Heitman.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave. His death details from the Philadelphia Inquirer of 17 December 1862.

Birth

Date not known in MO

Death

12/15/1862; Georgetown, DC; burial in Holy Rood Cemetery, Washington, DC

Notes

1 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, 2 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, Vol. 1, pg. 472 [AotW citation 26387]

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