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Federal (USV)

Private

Joseph Hawkins

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

A 20 year old farmer in Washington, IN, he enlisted and mustered as Private, CompanY E, 27th Indiana Infantry on 12 September 1862.

On the Campaign

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 20 December 1862 with chronic diarrhea and died there two days later.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial in Frederick, MD to the National Cemetery during or before 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Details from Brown2. Hospital details from the Patient List.3/span>

Birth

c. 1842

Death

12/02/1862; 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 3622]

2 Brown, Edmund Randolph, The Twenty-Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, Monticello, IN: E.R. Brown, 1899, pg. 630 [AotW citation 7973]

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 #1.092 [AotW citation 25372]

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