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Federal (USV)

Private

Orson Franklin Richardson

(1845 - 1862)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 17, giving his age as 18, he mustered as Private, Company E, 16th Maine Infantry on 14 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He died of disease at the Smoketown Hospital near Sharpsburg on 16 October 1862.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial at Smoketown to the National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 which has him as Arson F. Richardson, 6th Infantry. Service from the Adjutant General.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

03/15/1845; Vassalboro, ME

Death

10/16/1862; 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 4086]

2 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863, pg. 554 [AotW citation 20797]

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