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H. Stewart
(1841 - 1862)
Home State: Maryland
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 2nd Maryland Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 20, he enlisted in Company A, 2nd Maryland Infantry on 13 June 1861. By October he had been promoted Corporal, acted as Company Clerk, made Color Sergeant, and was serving as the Colonel's clerk. He was promoted First Sergeant prior to Antietam.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.
References & notes
Basic information from Wilmer1. Further details from a brief bio and collection of his letters posted online by Dr. Kenneth Stewart Thompson on his 2nd Md Infantry, US site. Dr. Thompson also kindly provided his portrait, source of the picture here.
Birth
02/05/1841; Medford, NJ
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 Wilmer, L. Allison, and J.H. Jarrett, George H. Vernon, State Commissioners, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5, Baltimore: Press of Guggenheimer, Weil & Co., 1898, pp. 76 - 87 [AotW citation 13003]