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Federal (USV)

Private

Oswin S. Frost

(1826 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 35, from Derby CT, he mustered as Private, Company A, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 20 September 1862, probably in a field hospital near the battlefield.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll.1 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Jane Shepard (1833-1908) in March 1852 and they had 2 children.

Birth

04/18/1826 in CT

Death

09/20/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Riverside Cemetery, Norwalk, CT

Notes

1 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pg. 315 [AotW citation 25796]

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