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Federal (USV)

Private

Oscar A. Spicer

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 121st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20, he enlisted 1 August 1862 at Plainfield and mustered in as Private, Company B, 121st New York Infantry on 23 August.

On the Campaign

He died of diphtheria on 30 November (or 12 December) 1862 at Hagerstown, MD.

After the War

He was initially buried in Hagerstown and was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from New York.2 His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1842

Death

11/30/1862; Hagerstown, 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 4206]

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 1903, Ser. No. 36, pg. 175 [AotW citation 25343]

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