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Federal (USV)

Private

George James

(c. 1833 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 28, he enlisted at Pottsville on 18 September 1861 and mustered there on 23 September as a Private in Company I, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and was originally buried nearby in Burkittsville, MD.

The rest of the War

He was reinterred in the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service basics from Bates2 and the Card File.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1833

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, 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 3679]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15364]

3 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 31013]

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