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Federal (USV)

Private

Abraham F. Overholt

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 155th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, he enlisted on 22 August 1862 in Pittsburgh, and mustered there as Private, Company E, 155th Pennsylvania Infantry on 2 September.

On the Campaign

Noted as the first death in his Company, he died of disease at Humphreys' Division Hospital, in the Lutheran Church in Sharpsburg on 10 October 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Porter1 and the Card File.

Birth

c. 1839

Death

10/10/1862; 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 13583]

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