[no picture yet]

Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Merton L. Smith

(? - 1862)

Home State: New Jersey

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th New Jersey Infantry

Before Antietam

He was in Company F.

On the Campaign

He died of fever in camp on Maryland Heights on 25 October 1862.

After the War

Originally buried at Weverton, MD. Reinterred at the new National Cemetery during or before 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Further details from Toombs2.

Death

10/25/1862; Maryland Heights, 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 4185]

2 Toombs, Samuel, Reminiscences of the War ... the Thirteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, Orange (NJ): The (Orange) Journal, 1878, pg. 29 [AotW citation 7875]

« Search for another Person