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Federal (USV)

Private

Chauncey J. Clum

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 33rd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 24, he enlisted at Palmyra, NY on 9 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 33rd New York Infantry on 22 May.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 19 September and died there of wounds on 30 September 1862.

After the War

He was reinterred from Frederick to the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. His service from the Adjutant General.2 Wound and hospital details from Nelson3 and the Patient List.4 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1837

Death

09/30/1862; 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 3326]

2 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New York for the [year]: Registers of the [units numbers], 43 vols., Albany: Comstock & Cassidy, Printers, 1893-1905, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 22, p. 28 [AotW citation 35062]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 165 [AotW citation 35063]

4 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 #480 [AotW citation 35064]

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