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Federal (USV)

Private

Enos S. Collins

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted on 27 April 1861 at Potsdam for two years and mustered as Private, Company B, 16th New York Infantry on 15 May. He was wounded at Gaines' Mills, VA on 27 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds in Burkittsville, MD on 18 September 1862.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial to the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 which has his death on 30 September in Middletown, MD. His service from the Adjutant General.2 His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

09/18/1862; Burkittsville, 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 3354]

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 1899, Ser. No. 19, pg. 561 [AotW citation 22554]

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