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Federal (USV)

Private

John Buchanan

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20, he enlisted and mustered as Private, Company B, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 11 February 1862 in Philadelphia.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was listed as "not accounted for" on the Company muster-out roll.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson1. His service from the Card File.2

Birth

c. 1842

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. 146 [AotW citation 16947]

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 23590]

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