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Federal (USV)

Private

Matthew Bell

(c. 1837 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 79th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 24, he enlisted on 23 April 1861 in New York City for three years and mustered as Private, Company I, 79th New York Infantry on 27 May.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Locust Spring field hospital near Keedysville, MD then transferred to a hospital in Washington, DC. He was listed as a deserter from the hospital in April 1863, with no further military record.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson1. His service from the Adjutant General.2

Birth

c. 1837

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 16371]

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 1901, Ser. No. 29, pg. 808 [AotW citation 22493]

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