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Federal (USV)

Private

James M. Kauffman

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 107th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 23 year old farmer in Thompsontown, he enlisted there on 11 February 1862 and mustered into service as Private, Company E, 107th Pennsylvania Infantry on 26 February in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of his wounds in Baltimore, MD on 11 October 1862.

References & notes

Service information from the Card File.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1839

Death

10/11/1862; Baltimore, MD; burial in Lost Creek Presbyterian Cemetery, McAlisterville, PA

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 23735]

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