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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Alsinus Keep

(1838 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 111th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 21 year old farmer in Conneaut Township, Erie County, he mustered as Corporal, Company E, 111th Pennsylvania Infantry on 22 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

After the War

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

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History 1 as Aginnis Keep. Service information from Bates.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

07/22/1838; Keepville, Erie County, PA

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 3707]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23749]

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