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Federal (USV)

Private

Jacob Clise

(c. 1845 - 1862)

Home State: Michigan

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Michigan Infantry

Before Antietam

A 17 year old farm boy on his father's place in Coe Township, Isabella County, he enlisted and mustered in St. Louis, MO on 16 August as Private, Company C, Eighth Michigan Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and buried on the field [map].

After the War

He was reinterred in the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1. His service from the State of Michigan,2 which has him alternately as Jacob Clyce. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as Jacob Clyce.

Birth

c. 1845; Ontario County, NY

Death

09/17/1862; 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 3342]

2 State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915, Vol. 8, pg. 30 [AotW citation 11962]

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