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Federal (USV)

Private

Volney A. Cole

(c. 1831 - 1862)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

From Oak Grove, he enlisted and mustered as Private, Company B, 6th Wisconsin Infantry on 10 May 1861.

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 battlefield to the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the Roster.2 Birth details from family genealogists. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1831 in PA

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 3350]

2 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886 [AotW citation 25967]

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