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Federal (USV)

Private

James Adams

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Michigan

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Michigan Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 22, from Brownstown, he enlisted in Detroit and mustered as Private, Company I, Eighth Michigan Infantry on 11 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and buried on the field [map].

After the War

He may have been reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

His service from the State of Michigan.1

Birth

c. 1840

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915, Vol. 8 [AotW citation 10719]

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