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Federal (USV)

Private

James Hurd

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 45th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, he mustered into service as Private, Company F, 45th Pennsylvania Infantry on 23 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

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

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 Service information from Bates.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1842

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 3670]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23030]

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