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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Joshua A. Armstrong

(c. 1832 - 1862)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 23rd Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

He was age 29 when he enlisted in Company F, 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry on 5 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was reinterred from original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the new National Cemetery during or before 1867.

References & notes

Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service details from the Ohio Roster2.

Birth

c. 1832

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 3169]

2 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 3, pg. 103 [AotW citation 7823]

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