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Federal (USV)

Private

Benjamin Parsons

(? - 1862)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

From Delaware County, IN, he mustered as Private, Company E, 19th Indiana Infantry on 29 July 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 29 September 1862, place not given.

References & notes

Service information from the Adjutant General.1 Wound detail from Nelson.2

Death

09/29/1862

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. 398 [AotW citation 20676]

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. 346 [AotW citation 20677]

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