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Federal (USV)

Private

Robert Ness

(? - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 9th Pennsylvania Reserves

Before Antietam

He enlisted and mustered into service as Private, Company H, 9th Pennsylvania Reserves on 9 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by gunshot to the arm in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was probably treated at a field hospital near the battlefield, then admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 20 September. He died there of wounds on 21 October 1862.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. His service from Bates.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

10/21/1862; 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 3974]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 22684]

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 #247 [AotW citation 22685]

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