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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry E. Jeffries

(c. 1838 - 1863)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, he enlisted in Perrysville on 19 September 1861 and mustered into service as Private, Company I, 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry on 10 October in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in Maryland in September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 13 September 1862 with a gunshot wound and was transferred (place not given) and detailed as a hospital attendant on 15 September. He died, probably in a field hospital near Sharpsburg, on 3 March (or 28 February) 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Card File,1 which says only that he was "not accounted for" on the Company muster-out roll, and Bates.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as H.E. Jeffers. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1838

Death

03/03/1863; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 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 23243]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23244]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #2.784 [AotW citation 23247]

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