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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry Stuchell

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 11th Pennsylvania Reserves

Before Antietam

A 20 year old farmer, he enlisted on 11 July 1861 in Pittsburgh, and mustered as a Private in Company B, 11th Pennsylvania Reserves on 29 July.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862

The rest of the War

He was reinterred from his original burial in Burkittsville, MD to the National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from Bates2 and the Card File.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1841

Death

09/14/1862; Turner's Gap, 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 4235]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 22833]

3 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 22834]

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