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Federal (USV)

Private

Joseph McDonald

(c. 1838 - 1863)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

From Monroe County, IN, he enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company K, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the hand and wrist in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 15 December 1863 and was killed 5 days later in the "affray" at Stevensburg, VA.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound details from Nelson.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1838

Death

12/20/1863; Stevensburg, VA; burial in Culpeper National Cemetery, Culpeper, VA

Notes

1 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 2, p. 289 [AotW citation 33436]

2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 310 [AotW citation 33437]

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