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Federal (USV)

Private

David H. Howard

(? - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted in New York City as Private, Company B, 12th New York Infantry on 11 December 1861.

On the Campaign

He died of disease at Sharpsburg, MD on 20 October 1862.

After the War

He was originally buried in Hagerstown but was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 in Company D. His service from New York.2 His memorial is on Findagrave.

Death

10/20/1862; 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 3657]

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 1899, Ser. No. 19, pg. 94 [AotW citation 25232]

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