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Federal (USV)

Private

Sanford Robbins

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 32nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

On 1 May 1861, age 21, he enlisted in Ithica for two years and mustered as Private, Company A, 32nd New York Infantry on 31 May.

On the Campaign

He died of disease in a hospital in Hagerstown, MD on 3 November 1862.

After the War

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

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. His service from the Adjutant General.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

11/03/1862; Hagerstown, 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 4100]

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. 21, pg. 988 [AotW citation 22551]

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