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Federal (USV)

Corporal

John Brierly

(c. 1834 - 1862)

Home State: Delaware

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Delaware Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted in Wilmington, DE on 18 April 1861 for three months and mustered on 2 May as a Private in Company A, 1st Delaware Infantry. He mustered out and reenlisted on 7 August 1861 for 3 years and mustered as a Corporal in the same Company on 19 August.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from the State of Delaware1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

His younger brother Robert, also in Company A, was wounded at Antietam.

Birth

c. 1834; Philadelphia, PA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of Delaware, Adjutant General's Office, Civil War Military records for Delaware Units, Published 1861-, first accessed 31 January 2015, <http://archives.delaware.gov/CivilWar/volumes/>, Source page: Muster Out Roll, First Delaware Infantry [AotW citation 13687]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31591]

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