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Federal (USV)

Private

Eugene S. Chambers

(1837 - 1863)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 111th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He mustered into service as Private, Company F, 111th Pennsylvania Infantry on 30 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by gunshot to the hand in Maryland in September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD from 17 September to 25 September 1862, then sent on to Washington, DC. He was discharged for wounds, date not given. He died - place and cause unknown - on 2 February 1863.

References & notes

Basic service from Bates,1 as Eugene L. Chambers. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1837 in PA

Death

02/02/1863; burial in Erie Cemetery, Erie, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. III, pg. 1042 [AotW citation 21717]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #50 [AotW citation 21718]

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