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Federal (USV)

Private

Joseph Casler

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 121st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 22, he enlisted in Little Falls on 9 August, and mustered as Private, Company H, 121st New York Infantry on 23 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in Maryland but died at a hospital in Hagerstown, MD on 13 November 1862.

After the War

He was initially buried in a plot near the Alms House in Hagerstown, but was reinterred at the new Antietam National Cemetery in 1866-67.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1 with service from the State of New York.2 Death details from an article in the Hagerstown Herald of Freedom & Torch Light of 19 November 1862.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

11/13/1862; Hagerstown, 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 3309]

2 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1903, Ser. No. 36, pg. 31 [AotW citation 17670]

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