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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Edward H. Wirt

(? - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 125th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He mustered as Corporal, Company I, 125th Pennsylvania Infantry on 13 August 1862 in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

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

After the War

He was originally buried on the battlefield but was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Service information from Bates.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. IV, pp. 124 - 125 [AotW citation 1384]

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