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Federal (USV)

Private

Aaron Sherman

(1838 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 22nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 22, he enlisted on 31 May 1861 in Glens Falls and mustered as Private, Company F, 22nd New York Infantry on 6 June.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the City Hotel US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 28 September 1862. He died there of wounds at 4 o'clock in the morning of 9 October 1862.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the Adjutant General.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1838 in NY

Death

10/09/1862; Frederick, 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 4160]

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. 20, pg. 406 [AotW citation 25333]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #422 [AotW citation 25334]

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