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Federal (USV)

Private

Robert W. Ross

(c. 1836 - 1863)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Pennsylvania Reserves (1st Rifles)

Before Antietam

A 25 year old farmer he enlisted and mustered into service as Private, Company K, 13th Pennsylvania Reserves on 3 October 1861 in Harrisburg. He was captured at Mechanicsville, VA on 26 June 1862, probably exchanged in August, and returned to duty.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 16 or 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 7 January 1863, place not given.

References & notes

His service from Bucktails 1 and the Card File.2

Birth

c. 1836

Death

01/07/1863

Notes

1 Thomson, O. R. Howard, and William H. Rauch, History of the "Bucktails", Kane Rifle Regiment of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps (13th Pennsylvania Reserves, 42nd of the Line), Philadelphia: Electric Printing Co., 1906, pg. 435 [AotW citation 23001]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 23002]

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