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Federal (USV)

Captain

Charles McPherson

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, he enrolled on Long Island, NY and mustered in as First Lieutenant of Company C, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861. He was captured in the battle at Ball's Bluff, VA on 21 October and paroled, date not given. He was promoted to Captain on 14 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery during or before 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the State of New York.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1838

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 3905]

2 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 23, p. 1028 [AotW citation 30095]

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