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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry P. Fish

(1830 - 1862)

Home State: Rhode Island

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Rhode Island Infantry

Before Antietam

From Providence, he enlisted and mustered on 12 June 1862 as Private, Company G, 4th Rhode Island Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and buried on the field [map].

After the War

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

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the Register.2 His gravesite at Antietam and a memorial in Oakland Cemetery, Cranston, RI are on Findagrave.

Birth

1830

Death

09/17/1862; 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 3499]

2 State of Rhode Island, and Henri Crandall, Acting Adjutant General, Official Register of Rhode Island Officers and Soldiers ... 1861 to 1865, in the Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Rhode Island for 1865, Providence: Providence Press, 1866, pg. 150 [AotW citation 25951]

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