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Federal (USV)

Private

John Anderson

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 43rd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted in Albany on 27 August 1861 and mustered as Private, Company A, 43rd New York Infantry on 1 September.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was promoted to First Sergeant on 17 June 1865 and mustered out with his Company at Washington, DC on 27 June 1865.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson.1. His service from the Adjutant General.2

Birth

c. 1840

Notes

1 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 114 [AotW citation 16140]

2 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 23, pg. 1104 [AotW citation 26159]

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