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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Harvey E. Elmore

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 20 year old merchant living in Edward Gaines' hotel in Winchester, Litchfield County, CT. He enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September. He was promoted to Sergeant on 1 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

References & notes

Casualty and possible burial information from Banks.1 His service from the Record.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in poss. North Village Cemetery, New Hartford, CT

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12524]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, p. 336 [AotW citation 30595]

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