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Federal (USV)

Private

Owen Suffolk

(c. 1835 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 66th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He was 26 when he enlisted on 14 November 1861 in New York City in Company H, 66th New York Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of his wounds on 11 November 1862 at hospital in Frederick, ND. He was reinterred from his original burial in Frederick, MD to the National Cemetery during or before 1867.

References & notes

Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History1, which has him in Company K. Service data from State of New York2.

Birth

c. 1835

Death

11/11/1862; Frederick, 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 4237]

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, Issue 27 (for the year 1901), pg. 896 [AotW citation 7951]

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