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Federal (USV)

Private

Robert J. Smith

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Pennsylvania Reserves

Before Antietam

A 22 year old cooper in Philadelphia, he enlisted there in May 1861 and mustered as Private, Company D, 2nd Pennsylvania Reserves on 1 June 1861 at Sandy Hook, MD.

On the Campaign

He died of chronic diarrhea near South Mountain, MD on 13 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Bates1 and the Card File.

Birth

c. 1839

Death

09/13/1862; Frederick County, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 22707]

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