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Federal (USV)

Corporal

George Grandall

(? - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 51st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He was in Company B, 51st New York Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 3 October 1862 but died there of wounds on 4 November 1862. He was originally buried at Frederick and reinterred in the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 He is not found in the State Roster for the 51st NY or any other NY unit. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

11/04/1862; 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 3565]

2 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 #753 [AotW citation 22457]

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