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Federal (USV)

Private

James Bennett

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 50th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

An 18 year old farmer in Towanda, he enlisted there on 26 August 1861 and mustered as Private, Company G, 50th Pennsylvania Infantry in September 1861 in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and buried on the field [map].

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial to the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

His service from Bates1 and the Card File. Burial details from the cemetery History.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11525]

2 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3213]

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