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(c. 1840 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 89th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a farmer on his father's place in Masonville, Delaware County. On 18 September 1861, age 21 years, he enlisted at Unadilla, to serve three years and mustered as Private, Company K, 89th New York Infantry on 22 October.
On the Campaign
He died of disease on 3 November 1862 at Knoxville, MD.
After the War
He was originally buried in Knoxville but was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.
References & notes
Service information from the State of New York1, which also lists him as Bougartt. His burial from the cemetery History,2 as Henry L. Bougartt. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave. He may also have a stone in East Masonville Cemetery, Masonville, NY.
Birth
c. 1840; Otsego County, NY
Death
11/03/1862; Knoxville, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, for the Year 1901 (Issue 31), pg. 184 [AotW citation 12428]
2 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869, pg. 93 [AotW citation 25359]