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Federal (USV)

Private

Samuel B. McCahan

(c. 1844 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 32, he enlisted and mustered as Private, Company F, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 30 October 1861 in Philadelphia.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Corporal, date not given and he was listed as "not accounted for" on the Company muster-out roll.

References & notes

His service from the Card File 1 and Bates.2 Wound detail from Nelson.3

Birth

c. 1844

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 23549]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23550]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 305 [AotW citation 23551]

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