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Federal (USV)

Private

Isaac Fry

(1830 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 31, he enlisted on 19 September 1861 in Perryville and mustered as Private, Company I, 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry on 10 October in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 23 November with chronic rheumatism and died there on 26 November 1862.

After the War

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

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 Service information from the Card File,2 which has his age as 20 at enlistment. Personal details from family genealogists. Hospital details from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Catherine Swartz (1833-1925) in Illinois in 1855 and they had two daughters.

Birth

01/30/1830

Death

11/27/1862; Frederick, 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 3526]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 23238]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #651 [AotW citation 23239]

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