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A.P. Hall

A.P. Hall

Federal (USV)

Private

Adna Penniman Hall

(1837 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 24, a shoemaker in Natick on enlistment in June 1861. He was in Company H.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

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

References & notes

Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History1, which has him as "A. P. Hale". Service data from Soldiers2, with personal details from genealogists online. His photo here from g-g-g-grandson Shane Gurney.

Birth

04/19/1837; Grafton, New Hampshire

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 3586]

2   Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pg. 115  [AotW citation 6991]