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Federal (USV)

Private

John S. Beals

(1839 - 1935)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 22, he enlisted on 14 September 1861 in Centre County and mustered as Private, Company D, 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry on 16 October in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

He was wounded, with contusion to the ankle, in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was "not accounted for" at the Company muster-out on 30 June 1865.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson1. Service information from the Card File.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as Sergeant.

Birth

1839

Death

1935; burial in Philipsburg Cemetery, South Philipsburg, PA

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. 127 [AotW citation 16339]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 23235]

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