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Federal (USV)

Private

Jeremiah Breckbill

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Pennsylvania Reserves (1st Rifles)

Before Antietam

A 22 year old nailor (nail maker) in Petersburg, he enlisted in Perry County on 27 May 1861 and mustered into service as Private, Company B, 13th Pennsylvania Reserves on 4 June in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He mustered out with his Company on 11 June 1864.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson.1 Service from Bates2 and the Card File,3 as Jeremiah Breakbill.

Birth

c. 1839

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. 139 [AotW citation 16531]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 22938]

3 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 22939]

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