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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

Augustus T. Cross

(1840 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Pennsylvania Reserves

Before Antietam

Son of composer, conductor, and musician Benjamin Cross, in 1860 he was a 19 year old bookkeeper/clerk living with his older brothers Michael, a professor of music (and later conductor), and Edward, a banker, along with his mother and other siblings in Philadelphia. He enrolled there and mustered into service as a Private in Company K, 2nd Pennsylvania Reserves on 25 (or 27) May 1861. He was appointed Sergeant Major of the regiment on 21 June and was commissioned First Lieutenant and Regimental Adjutant on 1 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was detailed as aide to Brigadier General Seymour shortly before the battle on South Mountain on 14 September, and was killed in action at Antietam on the evening of 16 September 1862.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 His assignment to Seymour's staff and death detail from Woodward.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

08/01/1840; Philadelphia, PA

Death

09/16/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA

Notes

1   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871  [AotW citation 11445]

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 31113]

3   Woodward, Evan Morrison, Our Campaigns or The Marches, Bivouacs, Battles, Incidents of Camp Life and History of our Regiment ..., Philadelphia: J.E. Potter, 1865, pp. 199-200, 205  [AotW citation 31114]