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Federal (USV)

Private

Joseph V. Sloan

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 35th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 24 year old bootmaker in Randolph, MA, he enlisted on 6 August and mustered as Private, Company E, 35th Massachusetts Infantry on 19 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting Farm near Keedysville, MD but died there of his wounds on 6 October 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.1 Hospital detail from Nelson.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave, as Corporal.

Birth

c. 1837; Canton, MA

Death

10/06/1862; Keedysville, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, 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. 676 [AotW citation 20483]

2 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. 389 [AotW citation 20484]

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