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Federal (USV)

Private

Samuel W. Dusang

(? - 1862)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

From Delaware County, IN, he mustered as Private, Company E, 19th Indiana Infantry on 29 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by gunshot to the chest in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 29 September (or 13 November) 1862. He was reinterred from his original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery during or before 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service from the Adjutant General.2 Wound detail from Nelson.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

09/29/1862; 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 3452]

2   State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, pg. 398  [AotW citation 20682]

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. 197  [AotW citation 20683]