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Federal (USV)

Private

Solomon Stafford

(c. 1836 - 1862)

Home State: West Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th West Virginia Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 25, he enlisted in Company E, 7th West Virginia Infantry on 31 July 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds at the hospital at Smoketown, MD on 4 October 1862.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the Adjutant General,2 who says he was killed outright on 17 September, and the index to his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1836

Death

10/04/1862; Smoketown, 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 4216]

2 State of West Virginia, Adjutant General's Office, and Francis P. Peirpoint, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of West Virginia for the Year ending December 31, 1864, Wheeling: John McDermot, Public Printer, 1865, pg. 159 [AotW citation 25143]

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