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Federal (USV)

Private

Orville Jerome Case

(1838 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 21 year old mechanic in New Hartford, CT, and was listed as Jerome Case. He enlisted as a Private in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 7 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He died of disease at Sharpsburg, MD on 12 October 1862.

After the War

He was originally buried on the battlefield 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 Connecticut.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

06/11/1838; Barkhamsted, CT

Death

10/12/1862; 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 3306]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889 [AotW citation 25084]

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