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Federal (USV)

Private

George M. Richey

(? - 1862)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

From Owen County, IN, he mustered as Private, Company H, 14th Indiana Infantry on 7 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and probably died the same day.

References & notes

Service information from the Adjutant General,1 who says he was killed outright at Antietam. His wounding from an 18 September 1862 letter his Captain wrote home, online from the Indiana Historical Society.

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. 286 [AotW citation 20593]

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