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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Alphonso S. Erwin

(c. 1836 - 1862)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 24 year old farm hand on the Abner Floyd place at Russell's Mills in Parke County, IN. He mustered as Fourth Corporal of Company A, 14th Indiana Infantry on 7 June 1861.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1836 in NC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, pg. 273 [AotW citation 20575]

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