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Federal (USV)

Private

John Van Buren

(c. 1835 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 18th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Son of a shoemaker, in 1860 he was a 25 year old shoe moulder living with his parents and younger brother in Albany, NY. He enlisted and mustered there on 18 May 1861 as a Private in Company A, 18th New York Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

His service basics from the State of New York1 and his Muster Roll Abstract, online from fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860, as John Van Beuren.

Birth

c. 1835 in HOLLAND

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, 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. 1072 [AotW citation 31289]

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