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Federal (USV)

Private

Horace Hunn

(c. 1834 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Vernon, he enlisted as a Private in Company B, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 15 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He died of disease at the Big Spring Hospital on the Geeting Farm at Keedysville, MD on 12 October 1862.

After the War

He was initially buried on the field near the hospital but was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from Connecticut.2 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His name is also on the Vernon Civil War Monument.

Birth

c. 1834; Hartford County, CT

Death

10/12/1862; Keedysville, 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 3666]

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 [AotW citation 25085]

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