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Federal (USV)

Private

Sidney F. Mellen

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: Massachusetts Light Artillery, 8th Battery

Before Antietam

A 21 year old shoemaker in Stoneham, MA, he mustered as a Private in the 8th Massachusetts Light Artillery Battery for 6 months' service on 17 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds in a field hospital in Middletown, MD on 11 October 1862 and was probably buried nearby.

After the War

He was reinterred in Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.1 Burial from the History.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1841

Death

10/11/1862; Middletown, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 5, pg. 449 [AotW citation 28888]

2 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869, pg. 80 [AotW citation 28889]

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