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B.F. Burdick
(c. 1839 - 1862)
Home State: Rhode Island
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 20 year old "machine apprentice" living with his parents on their farm in Hopkinton, Washington County, RI. He enlisted on 27 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 4th Rhode Island Infantry on 30 October. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
After the War
He was reinterred from his original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery in about 1867. His parents began receiving pensions in September 1879 based on his service.
References & notes
Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 Service basics from Dyer.2. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. There is a cenotaph for him in Rockville Cemetery, Hopkinton, RI. His photograph from one in Rob Grandchamp's collection, thanks to Tom Rice.
Birth
c. 1839 in RI
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3269]
2 Dyer, Elisha, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations for the Year 1865 (corrected), 2 Volumes, Providence: E.L. Freeman & Son, 1893, Vol. 1, pg. 252 [AotW citation 14008]