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Federal (USV)

Private

John Heslet

(1839 - 1862)

Home State: Michigan

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 17th Michigan Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, from Niles, MI, he enlisted on 13 August 1862, in Niles, and mustered as Private, Company B, 17th Michigan Infantry on 26 August.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 16 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from Record of Service,1 which says he was discharged for wounds. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

02/11/1839

Death

10/16/1862; burial in Harmony Cemetery, Milton, PA

Notes

1 State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915, Vol. 17, pg. 47 [AotW citation 20186]

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