Joseph Adams

An 39 year old coal miner living in McKeesport, PA, he enlisted in Pittsburgh on 14 August 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 155th Pennsylvania Infantry on 2 September.

He arrived on the field with his Division on 18 September 1862. He died of disease on 26 October 1862 in the 3rd Division (5th Army Corps) field hospital in the Mount Calvary Lutheran Church in Sharpsburg.

He was buried on the field just outside town [map].

He was reinterred from his original burial on the battlefield to the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from Bates2 and the Card File, which has his age as 18. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

See much more about Adams and his experience at Sharpsburg in a fine post from John Banks on his Civil War Blog.

c. 1823

10/26/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD