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Federal (USV)

Private

Maurice E. Haythorne

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 18th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 17 year old cigar maker living with tobacconist John Jaycox and family in Fishkill, Dutchess County, NY. He enlisted there on 23 April 1861 and mustered on 17 May as a Private in Company C, 18th New York Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

His service basics from the State of New York.1 Personal details from the US Census of 1860, as Morris Hawthorne. His gravesite is on Findagrave, as Maurice E. Heythorn.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1899, Ser. No. 19, p. 1006 [AotW citation 31284]

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