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Federal (USV)

Private

James C. Harris

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 94th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 22, he enlisted at Henderson as Private, Company A, 94th New York Infantry on 12 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

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

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the Adjutant General.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1839

Death

09/14/1862; South Mountain, 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 3606]

2 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1902, Ser. No. 32 [AotW citation 24716]

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