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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

Isaac Finch

(1833 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 124th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 28 year old carpenter in West Chester, he mustered into service as Sergeant, Company A, 124th Pennsylvania Infantry on 8 August 1862 and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 16 (or 26) August.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 20 October 1862, place not given.

References & notes

Service information from Bates.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the 1860 US Census.

He married Elizabeth Gill (1837-1914) in about 1858 and they had a son Robert Lowry Finch (1859-1867).

Birth

1833; West Chester, PA

Death

10/20/1862

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11141]

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