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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Francis N. Nicholson

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 28th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

An 18 year old laborer in Chelsea, he enlisted 6 January 1862 as Private, Company G, 28th Massachusetts Infantry. He was promoted Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

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

After the War

He was reinterred from burial in Hagerstown, MD to the new National Cemetery after the War.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.2

Birth

c. 1844

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 3980]

2 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 3, pg. 243 [AotW citation 20120]

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