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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles Propson

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 20th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20 years, he enlisted 3 May 1861 in Company D, 20th New York Infantry at Poughkeepsie to serve 2 years. He mustered in as Private.

On the Campaign

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

After the War

He was originally buried on the battlefield, 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 Adjutant General.2

Birth

c. 1841

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 4051]

2 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1899, Ser. No. 20, pg. 122 [AotW citation 25435]

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