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Federal (USV)

Private

Rufus Robinson

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 122nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, he enlisted on 11 August 1862 in Syracuse and mustered as Private, Company I, 122nd New York Infantry on 15 August.

On the Campaign

He died of typhoid fever in the hospital at Smoketown, MD on 6 November 1862.

After the War

He was originally buried at Smoketown 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 His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1844

Death

11/06/1862; 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 4102]

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 1903, Ser. No. 36, pg. 316 [AotW citation 25330]

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