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Federal (USV)

Private

Benjamin Lord

(? - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 137th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He mustered in as Private, Company K, 137th Pennsylvania Infantry on 17 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He died of disease at a hospital in Hagerstown, MD on 31 October 1862.

After the War

He was initially buried in Hagerstown and reinterred at the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 Service from Bates.2

Death

10/31/1862; Hagerstown, 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 3816]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 25065]

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