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Federal (USV)

Corporal

George S. Tapley

(? - 1862)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 11th Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted in Company B, 11th Ohio Infantry on 20 June 1861. He was appointed Corporal on 1 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Death date unknown, he was reinterred from burial on South Mountain to the National Cemetery.

References & notes

Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service detail from the Roster2.

Death

1862; in 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 4248]

2 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 2, pg. 325 [AotW citation 13220]

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