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Federal (USV)

Private

Richard H. Cox

(c. 1818 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 35th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 44 year old bootmaker in Randolph, MA, he enlisted 11 August and mustered as Private, Company E, 35th Massachusetts Infantry on 19 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Locust Spring hospital on the Geeting farm near Keedysville, MD and died there of wounds on 22 September 1862.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 Service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.2 Hospital detail from Nelson.3

Birth

c. 1818

Death

09/22/1862; Keedysville, 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 3377]

2 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 3, pg. 672 [AotW citation 20417]

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, pg. 174 [AotW citation 20418]

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