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S.L. Buck
(1820 - 1892)
Home State: New Jersey
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 2nd New Jersey Infantry
see his Battle Report
Before Antietam
He had pre-War service in the NJ Militia. He was appointed Major, 2nd New Jersey Infantry on 22 May 1861, was promoted Lieutenant Colonel on 20 January, 1862; and Colonel when Colonel Isaac Tucker was killed, on 1 July 62.
The rest of the War
He mustered out of the Regiment 21 July 1864.
References & notes
Basic information from the NJ State Library, civil war records database. His gravesite is on Findagrave, also source of the photo here, from one of unknown provenance posted by Gregory Speciale.
Birth
06/08/1820; Bethel, VT
Death
02/05/1892; Newark, NJ; burial in Fairmount Cemetery, Newark, NJ