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Federal (USV)

Private

John Buckley

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 87th Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted and mustered as Private, Company C, 87th Ohio Infantry on 4 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was sick with typhoid fever in Maryland. He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 19 September 1862 but died there on 25 September 1862.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial in Frederick to the National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

His service from the Roster.1 Hospital details from the Patient List.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

09/25/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 7, pg. 8 [AotW citation 23760]

2 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 #4.171 [AotW citation 23761]

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