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Federal (USV)

Private

Sylvester Pierce

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 29th Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, he enlisted as Private, Company K, 29th Ohio Infantry on 26 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He died of disease in a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 20 October 1862.

After the War

He was originally buried in Frederick but was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the Roster.2 His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

10/20/1862; 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 4032]

2 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 3, pg. 392 [AotW citation 25209]

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