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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Joseph Corker

(c. 1818 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 89th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 43 years, he enlisted on 2 October 1861 at Norwich to serve three years and mustered in as Corporal, Company E, 89th New York Infantry on 7 October.

On the Campaign

He died on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg, MD, probably killed in action.

References & notes

Basic information from State of New York,1, which also has his last name as Cosher.

Birth

c. 1818

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

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), pp. 194 - 215  [AotW citation 12436]