James Harris Mellinger

Known as Harris, he was a 16 year old laborer in Middleburg, MD in 1862. He gave his age as 18 when he enlisted in Franklin County, PA, and he mustered into service as Corporal, Company H, 107th Pennsylvania Infantry on 25 February 1862 in Harrisburg.

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, not yet 16 years old.

He was reinterred from his original burial on the battlefield to the Middleburg United Brethren church cemetery, date not known.

Service information from Bates1 and the Card File,2 both as Harris Mellinger. His full name and other details from the Papers of the Kittochtinny Historical Society (Vol. VII, 1915). His memorial is on Findagrave.

His hometown of Middleburg was a tiny village on the Maryland-Pennsylvania border, halfway between Hagerstown and Greencastle. The Brethren church there was probably originally the Walgamoth home, built straddling the State line.

01/04/1847

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Rose Hill Cemetery, Cumberland, MD