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Federal (USV)

Private

Joshua Wilfong

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: West Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th West Virginia Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 24, he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 7th (West) Virginia Volunteers on 3 December 1861 in Greenland, OH.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds in a field hospital on or near the battlefield on 23 (or 18) September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 also as John or Jehu Wilfong, online from fold3. Death detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862, as John Wilfong.

Birth

c. 1837

Death

09/23/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 30064]

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