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Federal (USV)

Private

Nathaniel J. Russell

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 49th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, he enlisted on 7 September 1861 in Lockport for three years and mustered as Private, Company H, 49th New York Infantry on 11 September. He was promoted to Sergeant, date not given.

On the Campaign

He died of disease at Hagerstown, MD on 19 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. 1843

Death

11/19/1862; 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 4121]

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 1900, Ser. No. 24, pg. 1328 [AotW citation 22515]

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