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Federal (USV)

Private

Harrison N. Sargent

(1839 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 35th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 22 year old mason in Haverhill, MA, he enlisted 5 August and mustered as Private, Company G, 35th Massachusetts Infantry on 17 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, the day after his 23rd birthday.

References & notes

Basic information from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.1 He may be buried in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD. His father Amos Sargent (1793-1874) was a brick manufacturer in Haverhill and Harrison was one of 8 children. Harrison's brother George F. Sargent, also in Company G, was wounded at Antietam and killed at Cold Harbor, VA on 6 June 1864.

Birth

09/16/1839; Haverhill, MA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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. 3, pg. 688  [AotW citation 20445]