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Federal (USV)

Private

James Mathieson

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 79th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, he enlisted in New York City for three years and mustered as Private, Company C, 79th New York Infantry on 1 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and buried on the field [map].

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General.1

Birth

c. 1838

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 for the [year]: Registers of the [units numbers], 43 vols., Albany: Comstock & Cassidy, Printers, 1893-1905, For the Year 1901, Ser. No. 29, pg. 946 [AotW citation 22490]

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