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Federal (USV)

Private

Major G. Blades

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Delaware

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Delaware Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted at age 18 as a Private in Company D of the First Delaware Infantry on 10 August 1861 at Milford, DE.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his hip in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick on 23 September but died there on 28 October 1862.

After the War

He was originally buried in Frederick but was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from a Muster Roll.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

10/28/1862; Frederick, 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 3226]

2 State of Delaware, Adjutant General's Office, Civil War Military records for Delaware Units, Published 1861-, first accessed 31 January 2015, <http://archives.delaware.gov/CivilWar/volumes/>, Source page: Muster Out Roll, First Delaware Infantry [AotW citation 13679]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.358 [AotW citation 25992]

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