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Federal (USV)

Private

Frank Treon

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, he enlisted and mustered into service as Private, Company G, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry on 30 September 1861.

On the Campaign

At Antietam on 17 September 1862:

While lying in position, a round shot struck in Company G, killing Private Frank Treon and wounding Private McCoy Sargent.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Card File.2 The quote above from Colonel Cake's Report. 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 11909]

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 23664]

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