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Federal (USV)

Private

Joseph Cossar

(1838 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 35th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 23 year old comb polisher in Newburyport, MA, he enlisted on 6 August and mustered as Private, Company B, 35th Massachusetts Infantry on 19 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and died the next day.

References & notes

Basic information from Carruth1. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

10/04/1838; Digby, Novia Scotia, CANADA

Death

09/18/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Belleville Cemetery, Newburyport, MA

Notes

1 Carruth, Sumner, and others of the Committee of the Regimental Association, History of the Thirty-Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862-1865, Boston: Mills, Knight & Company, 1884, Roster, pp. 13 - 14 [AotW citation 15063]

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