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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Henry Hiram Mandigo

(1834 - 1862)

Home State: Vermont

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Vermont Infantry

Before Antietam

A 27 year old physician in Ludlow, he enlisted as Corporal, Company I, 2nd Vermont Infantry on 7 May 1861. He was promoted to Sergeant, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds and "fever and ulceration of bowels" in a hospital in Hagerstown, MD on 14 October 1862.

After the War

He was originally buried in Hagerstown 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 Peck2 and Ledoux.3 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave, as Corporal. He also has a cenotaph in Ludlow, VT.

Birth

03/02/1834; Noyan, Quebec, CANADA

Death

10/15/1862; 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 3840]

2 Peck, Theodore S., Adjutant General, and The Vermont Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers and Lists of Vermonters who Served in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion 1861-66, Montpelier: Press of the Watchman Publishing Co., 1892, pg. 60 [AotW citation 25218]

3 Ledoux, Tom, Vermont in the Civil War, Published 1996, first accessed 01 January 2004, <http://www.vermontcivilwar.org/index.php>, Source page: /get.php?input=3868 [AotW citation 25219]

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