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Federal (USV)

Private

Jeremiah P. Reddington

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: New Hampshire

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 9th New Hampshire Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, from Newport, NH, he enlisted on 11 August 1862 and mustered as Private, Company K, 9th New Hampshire Infantry on 15 August.

On the Campaign

He died of disease on 15 (or 20) October 1862 in Sharpsburg, MD.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the new National Cemetery after the War.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 which has him as J. P. Redington. Service from Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire.2

Birth

c. 1844; Salem, MA

Death

10/15/1862; 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 4064]

2 State of New Hampshire, Adjutant-General's Office, and Augustus D. Ayling, AG, Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1866 , 2 Volumes, Concord: Ira C. Evans, Public Printer, 1895, Vol. 1, pg. 497 [AotW citation 20322]

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