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Federal (USV)

Private

Peter P. Ploss

(c. 1821 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 80th New York Infantry (20th Militia)

Before Antietam

Age 40, he enlisted in Woodstock and mustered as Private, Company I, 20th New York State Militia (80th Infantry) on 10 October 1861.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1821

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, 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. 1271  [AotW citation 22603]