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Federal (USV)

Private

Eli H. Carey

(1831 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 31, he enlisted and mustered as Private, Company C, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 7 January 1862 in Philadalphia.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson1. His service from the Card File.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1831

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Rosedale Memorial Park, Bensalem, 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. 154 [AotW citation 17118]

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 23419]

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