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Federal (USV)

Private

Michael J. Fought

(1834 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Pennsylvania Reserves

Before Antietam

He mustered into service as Private, Company D, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves on 24 April 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain, MD, on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Bates.1 Details from family genealogists.

He married Sarah Ann Fox (1838-?) and they had a son Charles Wesley Fought (b. 1859).

Birth

1834 in PA

Death

09/14/1862; Turner's Gap, MD

Notes

1   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871  [AotW citation 22773]