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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles Sturdevant

(c. 1828 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 49th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

On 26 August 1861, age 33, he enlisted in Jamestown for three years and mustered as Sergeant, Company K, 49th New York Infantry on 18 September. He was reduced to Private on 31 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He died of "congestion of the lungs" on 30 September 1862 in Bakersville, MD.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial to the National Cemetery about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 as Charles Studivent. His service from the Adjutant General.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave as Charles Sturdivant.

Birth

c. 1828

Death

09/30/1862; Bakersville, 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 4236]

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 1900, Ser. No. 24, pg. 1350 [AotW citation 22526]

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