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Federal (USV)

Private

Mark A. Harris

(c. 1837 - 1878)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 24 year old bartender from Roxbury, he enlisted 19 August 1861 in Company D, 19th Massachusetts Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He mustered out of service on 28 August 1864.

References & notes

Service information from Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines 1 and the History. 2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1837

Death

08/19/1878; burial in Gray Village Cemetery, Gray, ME

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pg. 437 [AotW citation 17772]

2 Waitt, Ernest Linden (compiler), History of the Nineteenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865, Salem (MA): The Salem Press Co., 1906, pg. 144 [AotW citation 17773]

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