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Federal (USV)

Private

Francis Howard

(c. 1840 - 1915)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted in Company B, 8th Ohio Infantry at age 21 on 5 June 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

Reported as a deserter on 7 October 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from Sawyer1.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

1915; burial in Dayton National Cemetery, Dayton, OH

Notes

1 Sawyer, Franklin, and George A. Groot, editor, A Military History of the 8th Regiment Ohio Vol. Inf'y, Cleveland: Fairbanks & Co., Printers, 1881, pp. 198 - 202 [AotW citation 14780]

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