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Federal (USV)

Private

John Couhig

(c. 1836 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 79th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 25, he enlisted on 13 May 1861 in New York City for three years and mustered as Private, Company I, 79th New York Infantry on 27 May.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General.1

Birth

c. 1836

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1901, Ser. No. 29, pg. 843 [AotW citation 22487]

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