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Federal (USV)

Private

Sheldon Crowell

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Michigan

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Michigan Infantry

Before Antietam

An 18 year old farm boy in Dallas Township, Clinton County, MI, he enlisted and mustered there as Private, Company B, 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. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His name is on the Clinton County Veterans Memorial in St. Johns, MI, via Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1844 in MA

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 10724]

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