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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

Joseph B. Sackett

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 155th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He was in Company E.

References & notes

Basic information from Porter1. Served as Captain at Antietam. September 2, 1862. Promoted from 1st Lt., September 2, 1862; accidentally drowned in Cedar Creek, Va., January 24, 1864.

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 13580]