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Federal (USV)

Private

Hanford Curtis

(? - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Stratford, he enlisted in Company A, 14th Connecticut Infantry on 26 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD with chronic diarrhea on 23 November 1862 but died there on 17 December 1862.

After the War

He was originally buried in Frederick but was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from Page.2 Hospital details from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

12/17/1862; 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 3392]

2 Page, Charles D., History of the Fourteenth Regiment, Connecticut Vol. Infantry, Meriden (CT): The Horton Printing Co., 1906 [AotW citation 25123]

3 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 #668 [AotW citation 25124]

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