S.R. Breese

Federal (USV)

Captain

Samuel R. Breese

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 32nd Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 22, he enrolled on 5 September 1861 and was commissioned First Lieutenant, Company H, 32nd Ohio Infantry on 16 September. He was promoted to Captain on 24 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Harpers Ferry on 15 September 1862.

References & notes

His Service from the Roster.1. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph contributed by C. David Long.

Birth

c. 1839

Death

09/15/1862; Harpers Ferry, VA; burial in Annapolis National Cemetery, Annapolis, MD

Notes

1 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 3, pg. 502 [AotW citation 22344]

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