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Federal (USV)

Private

Alexander Smith

(c. 1828 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 130th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 34, probably from Orrsburg, he enrolled at Shippensburg, PA on 4 August 1862 and mustered into service as a Private in Company D, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry on 10 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Basic information from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave, probably.

He married Rebecca Jane Utzer (1838-1907) in March 1860.

Birth

c. 1828

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Orrstown Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Orrstown, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11303]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 27199]

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