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(1840 - 1862)
Home State: Michigan
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 17th Michigan Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 23, rom Backman, MI, he enlisted in Company G, 17th Michigan Infantry as Sergeant on 12 July 1862 and mustered on 18 August.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1, which lists him as Private - he may have been reduced to Private immediately before the battle on South Mountain. Service from the Record of Service,2 which has him as Ansil J. Darling. Birth details from family genealogists. His light knapsack is in the National Civil War Museum, Harrisburg, PA. His cartridge box was sold at auction by Heritage Auctions in June 2015.
Birth
1840; Eaton Rapids, MI
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3399]
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. 17, pg. 27 [AotW citation 20202]