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Federal (USV)

Private

John Anthony

(? - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Pennsylvania Reserves

Before Antietam

He mustered into service as Private, Company H, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves on 28 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 22 October 1862, probably in the US Army field hospital at Smoketown, MD.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from Bates.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

10/22/1862; Smoketown, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3165]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 22775]

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