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Federal (USV)

Private

James B. Murphy

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, a trunk maker in Boston when he enlisted in July 1862 in Company E, 12th Massachusetts Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by gunshot to the thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 28 September but died of wounds on 25 October 1862. He was originally buried in Frederick but reinterred in the National Cemetery about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 Service from Soldiers2. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1844

Death

10/25/1862; 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 3964]

2 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pg. 33 [AotW citation 6759]

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 #100 [AotW citation 22146]

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