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Federal (USV)

Private

Edward A. Sims

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 23rd Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted at age 21 in Company D, 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry on 20 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was reinterred from original burial on South Mountain to the new National Cemetery during or before 1867.

References & notes

Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History1, which has him as Edmund Sim. Service details from the Ohio Roster2.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

09/14/1862; South Mountain, 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 4168]

2 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 3, pg. 97 [AotW citation 7820]

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