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Federal (USV)

Private

Michael Keefe

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Antietam

From Enfield, CT. He enlisted on 14 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 27 September.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in the head in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 but was listed as a deserter as of 28 September 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Record 1 with wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report.

Notes

1 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, p. 335 [AotW citation 30691]

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