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Federal (USV)

Private

Archibald McMillin

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 155th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 20 year old farmer in Allegheny County, he enlisted in Pittsburg on 11 August 1862 and mustered as Private, Company B, 115th Pennsylvania Infantry on 23 August.

On the Campaign

He died of "camp fever" at Sharpsburg, MD on 7 November 1862.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial at Sharpsburg to the National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Service information from Porter1 and the Card File.2 Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.3

Birth

c. 1842

Death

11/07/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Porter, John T. , Financial Secretary, and Charles F. McKenna, compiler & editor, Under the Maltese Cross, Antietam to Appomattox, the Loyal Uprising in Western Pennsylvania, 1861-1865: Campaigns of the 155th Pennsylvania Regiment, Pittsburgh: 155th Regimental Association, 1910, pp. 392 - 436 [AotW citation 13577]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 25275]

3 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3900]

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