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Federal (USV)

Private

Jacob W. Barr

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 137th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 22 year old laborer from Butler County, he enlisted as Private, Company G, 137th Pennsylvania Infantry on 9 August 1862.

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 9 October 1862 at a field hospital near Sharpsburg, MD.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1840

Death

10/09/1862; 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 3197]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 25060]

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