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Federal (USV)

Private

William McKitrick

(1836 - 1862)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 30th Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 24, he enlisted as Private in Company K, 30th Ohio Infantry on 15 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was reinterred from his original burial on South Mountain to the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 as William McKittrick. His service from the Roster.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

12/18/1836; Noble County, OH

Death

09/14/1862; Fox's Gap, 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 3889]

2 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 3, pg. 424 [AotW citation 22198]

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