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Federal (USV)

Private

Chamberlain Loomis

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 134th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 20 year old laborer in Beaver County, he enlisted as a Private in Company E, 134th Pennsylvania Infantry on 14 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 4 November but died there of typhoid fever on 22 December 1862.

After the War

He was originally buried in Frederick 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 Bates.2 Hospital detail from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1842

Death

12/22/1862; Frederick, 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 3815]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 25107]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #269 [AotW citation 25108]

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