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Federal (USV)

Private

James A. Smith

(? - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 131st Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He mustered as Private, Company K, 131st Pennsylvania Infantry on 7 August 1862 in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 5 November 1862 and died there, probably of disease, on 18 November.

After the War

He was originally buried in Frederick 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 Bates.2 Hospital details from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

11/19/1862; 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 4181]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 25213]

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 #1.509 [AotW citation 25214]

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