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Federal (USV)

Private

John McCormick

(? - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 28th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted on 17 August 1861 in Hazleton and mustered into service as a Private in Company N, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry on 20 August in Philadelphia.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and died the same day.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Card File.2

He was administratively transferred to Company C, 147th Pennsylvania Infantry on 28 October 1862, and his service details are also filed under that unit.

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23164]

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 23165]

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