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Federal (USV)

Private

Nicholas G. Marchand

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 155th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted at age 18 in Company A, 155th Pennsylvania Infantry on 23 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He arrived on the field with his Division on 18 September 1862. He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 6 November 1862 but died there, probably of disease, on 18 November 1862.

After the War

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

References & notes

Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History1 with his service from Bates2. Hospital details from the Patient List.3

Birth

c. 1844

Death

11/19/1862; 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 3843]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 13556]

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 #1.458 [AotW citation 25276]

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