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Federal (USV)

Private

Peter Killion

(? - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Battery F

Before Antietam

He mustered into service as Private, Battery F, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery on 3 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the US Army hospital at the City Hotel in Frederick, MD on 28 September but died there of wounds at 8 am on 8 October 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Bates,1 who has his death on 13 October. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as Peter Killian.

Death

10/06/1862; Frederick, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11957]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #533 [AotW citation 22116]

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