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Federal (USA)

Private

Calvin Jones

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 11th United States Infantry

Before Antietam

An 24 year old teamster, he enlisted for three years as a Private in Company B, 11th United States Infantry in Pittsfield (MA?) on 9 September 1861. He was described as being 5 feet 8 1/2 inches tall with blue eyes, light hair and dark complexion.

On the Campaign

He died, probably of disease, in camp near Sharpsburg, MD on 2 October 1862 and was buried on the field.

After the War

He was reinterred in the National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

His service and death from the Register.1 Burial details from the cemetery History.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1837; Barrington, MA

Death

10/02/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 142, pg. 395 [AotW citation 29666]

2 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 29667]

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