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Federal (USA)

Private

John H. Ransom

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 11th United States Infantry

Before Antietam

An 24 year old moulder, he enlisted for three years as a Private in Company B, 11th United States Infantry in Hoosick, NY on 20 August 1861. He was described as being 5 feet 6 inches tall with blue eyes, light hair and fair complexion.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the thigh in action at Boteler's Ford near Shepherdstown, VA on 20 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 21 September 1862 probably at the 5th Army Corps hospital in the Charles Clark House in Sharpsburg, MD.

References & notes

His service from the Register.1 His wounding at Shepherdstown from Major Floyd-Jones' Report. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1837; Ticonderoga, NY

Death

09/21/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 57, pg. 21 [AotW citation 21477]

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