Reuben E. Salisbury

In 1860 he was a 19 year old tanner and currier living with the James H Sharp family in Richland, Oswego County, NY. He enlisted in Mexico, NY on 14 October 1861 and mustered as Corporal, Battery G, First NY Light Artillery on 17 October.

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam and died of wounds later the same day at a field hospital on the Line farm at Sharpsburg.

He was reinterred from his original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery during or before 1867.

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the Muster Roll [pdf], online from the NY State Military Museum. Hospital detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862, as R.E. Sailer. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as R.E. Salsbury.

c. 1841; Oswego County, NY

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD