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Federal (USV)

Private

Alphonso Prentiss Reed

(1840 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 35th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 22 year old currier 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 killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from Carruth1. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

02/10/1840 in NH

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Oak Hill 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, pg. 16 [AotW citation 15107]

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