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Federal (USV)

Private

Casper Leveck

(? - 1863)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 49th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 22, he enlisted in Buffalo for three years and mustered as Sergeant, Company B, 49th New York Infantry on 28 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He died of disease at the Smoketown US Army hospital near Sharpsburg on 16 January 1863.

After the War

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

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 as Casper Leverick. His service from the Adjutant General.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave, as Casper Levick.

Death

01/16/1863; Smoketown, 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 3788]

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 1900, Ser. No. 24, pg. 1285 [AotW citation 22514]

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