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Federal (USV)

Private

John Nighting

(? - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From New Hartford, he enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 7 October 1862.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Banks.1 His service from the Record.2 Major Ward does not mention him among the casualties in his after-action report.

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12526]

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. 338 [AotW citation 30598]

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