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Federal (USV)

Captain

John H. Bell

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 57th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He was in Company C, 57th New York Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded, his skull fractured by a shell, in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson1.

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. 129  [AotW citation 16368]