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Federal (USV)

Private

John Ball

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: 1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery L

Before Antietam

He enlisted as Private in Battery L, 1st Ohio Light Artillery on 6 November 1861 at age 24.

On the Campaign

He died, probably of disease, at the Smoketown Hospital near Sharpsburg on 26 September 1862 or at Boonsboro, MD on 24 September.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Smoketown Hospital at Sharpsburg, MD but died there on 26 September 1862, cause not given.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson,1 with details from the State Roster,2 which says he died of disease at Boonsboro, MD. Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,3 which has him in Battery L, 1st New York Artillery. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1837

Death

09/26/1862; Smoketown, MD

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. 121 [AotW citation 16243]

2 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. X, pg. 432 [AotW citation 16244]

3 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3184]

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