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Federal (USV)

Private

Jacob M. Garis

(1839 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 128th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, he enlisted in Doylestown on 8 August 1862 and mustered as Private, Company F, 128th Pennsylvania Infantry on 15 August in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Bates,1 as Garris, and the Register.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

08/17/1839

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Deep Run Mennonite Church East Cemetery, Bedminster, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11170]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant General's Office, Register of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, 16 volumes, Harrisburg [AotW citation 23914]

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