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Federal (USV)

Private

Stephen Himes

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Union, he enlisted as a Private in Company H, 5th Connecticut Infantry on 16 July 1861 but was discharged 7 days later (probably under-age). He enlisted again, as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 9 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed by a gunshot to his chest in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and was buried on the field.

After the War

He was reinterred in the National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 as Stephen Hines. His service from the Record.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1844

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 3644]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pp. 46, 636 [AotW citation 27278]

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