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Federal (USV)

Private

Levi Marks

(1839 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 51st Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted and mustered into service in Company H, 51st Pennsylvania Infantry on 19 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam less than a month later on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Card File.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave. His birth date calculated from his age at death of 23 years, 5 months, and 20 days - from his gravestone.

Birth

03/28/1839

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Elimsport Cemetery, Elimsport, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11560]

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 23184]

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