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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Patrick Fitzgibbons

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, he enlisted as a Private, Company I, 5th Ohio Infantry on 20 June 1861. He was appointed Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at a private house near the battlefield but died there of wounds on 1 October 1862.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial on or near the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery during or before 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from Ohio.2 Hospital detail from Nelson.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1842

Death

10/01/1862; 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 3502]

2 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 2, pg. 163 [AotW citation 25167]

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. 209 [AotW citation 25168]

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