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Federal (USV)

Private

Joseph S. French

(? - 1862)

Home State: Rhode Island

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, Battery D

Before Antietam

From Providence, he enlisted as a Private in Battery D, First Rhode Island Light Artillery on 21 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds at the Smoketown Hospital on 24 October 1862.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the Adjutant General.2 His wounding from Nelson.3 His memorial is on Findagrave.

Death

10/24/1862; Smoketown, 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 3523]

2 Dyer, Elisha, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations for the Year 1865 (corrected), 2 Volumes, Providence: E.L. Freeman & Son, 1893 [AotW citation 25194]

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. 215 [AotW citation 25195]

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