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Federal (USV)

Private

Joseph Gardner Winn

(c. 1828 - 1862)

Home State: New Hampshire

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd United States Sharpshooters

Before Antietam

A 31 year old farmer in Nashua, NH, he enlisted as Private, Company G, 2nd US Sharpshooters on 21 November 1861 and mustered on 12 December.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and died there the next day.

References & notes

Service information from Ayling.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial in Woodlawn Cemetery in Nashua, NH is on Findagrave.

He married Louisa P. Copp (1836-1900) in March 1857 and they had 3 children; one died in infancy.

Birth

c. 1828; Hudson, NH

Death

09/18/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of New Hampshire, Adjutant-General's Office, and Augustus D. Ayling, AG, Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1866 , 2 Volumes, Concord: Ira C. Evans, Public Printer, 1895, Vol. 2, pg. 982 [AotW citation 25034]

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