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Federal (USV)

Private

Richard Merritt

(c. 1819 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 35th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 43, he enlisted on 11 March 1862 in Watertown to serve an unexpired term of enlistment, and mustered as Private, Company D, 35th New York Infantry the same day.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the Adjutant General.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1819

Death

09/14/1862; South Mountain, 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 3919]

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. 22, pg. 371 [AotW citation 22612]

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