Alvin Orcutt

Age 18, he enlisted for two years on 18 May 1861 at Rathbone and mustered as Private, Company E, 34th New York Infantry on 15 June 1861.

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

There was an effort made to gather all the dead buried on these fields into the National Cemetery [in 1867]; but of the forty-three men from the Thirty-fourth, killed and buried here, only eleven sleep in identified graves. These are: John H. Adle, Company C; Henry Bailey, Company D; John Beardsley, Company G; James Donohoe, Company A; Henry Oilman, Company A; Peter Jolly, Company D; W. H. Lewis, Company K; Alvin Orcutt, Company E; Chester S. Rhodes, Company H; William Rubbins, Company G; William A. Salisbury, Company C.

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1, which has him as Alvey Orcutt. Service from the State of New York.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave; with Albin Orcott on the stone. He also has a memorial in Hornby, NY (via Findagrave) as Alvin A. Alcott. The quote above from Chapin's A Brief History of the Thirty-fourth Regiment, N. Y. S. V.

c. 1843

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD