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Federal (USV)

Private

Jonas Nixon

(c. 1829 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 128th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

About age 33, he enlisted in Doylestown on 8 August 1862 and mustered as Private, Company C, 128th Pennsylvania Infantry on 14 August in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at a hospital in Chambersburg, PA but died there of his wounds on 4 October 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Register.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1829

Death

10/04/1862; Chambersburg, PA; burial in Riegelsville Union Cemetery, Riegelsville, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11187]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant General's Office, Register of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, 16 volumes, Harrisburg [AotW citation 23980]

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