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Federal (USV)

Private

Mathew Murphy

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 83rd New York Infantry (9th Militia)

Before Antietam

Enlisted in New York City as Private, Company H on 27 May 1861 at age 18.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service data from State of New York2.

Birth

c. 1843

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 3962]

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, Issue 30 (for 1901), pg. 660 [AotW citation 7351]

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