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Federal (USV)

Private

Adam Burge

(1820 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 125th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted in Company E, 125th Pennsylvania Infantry on 13 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 30 September 1862 at the Columbian Hospital, Washington, DC.

References & notes

Basic information from Bates 1, who has him as Adam Beurge. His gravesite is on Findagrave. The cemetery now known as US Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery.

Birth

1820; Cambria County, PA

Death

09/30/1862; Washington, DC; burial in Military Asylum Cemetery, Washington, DC

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. IV, pp. 118 - 119 [AotW citation 1330]

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