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Federal (USV)

Private

James R. Young

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 100th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

An 18 year old farmer in East Brook, he enlisted in Princeton, PA on 27 August 1861 and mustered into service as Private, Company F, 100th Pennsylvania Infantry on 31 August at Camp Wilkins near Pittsburgh.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action by a gunshot to the head at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Card File.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

09/14/1862; Fox's Gap, MD; burial in Hermon-Union Cemetery, Princeton, PA

Notes

1   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871  [AotW citation 23675]

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 23676]