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Federal (USV)

Private

Elbridge G. Pool

(? - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20, he was a shoemaker in East Abington when he enlisted in June 1861 in the 12th Massachusetts Infantry, Company G.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds at Smoketown, MD on 14 October 1862 and was buried there. Reinterred in the National Cemetery by 1867.

References & notes

Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service data from Soldiers2.

Death

10/14/1862; Smoketown, 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 4038]

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. 46 [AotW citation 6802]

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