David Taylor

Age 21, he enlisted as Private, Company I, 30th Ohio Infantry on 22 August 1861. He was promoted to Corporal on 10 June 1862.

He was killed in action at Antietam on 16 September 1862:

On the sixteenth, a Regular Battery (E/2nd US) of thirty-two pounders [sic], commanded by Lieut. Benjamin, was planted on an eminence a short distance in front of our line. This battery throughout the entire day was shelling the enemy's position; and occasional replies from the rebel batteries were provoked, and almost invariably the balls over-shot the battery and came down in our camps. Several conical shot fell near our regiment, and finally, one struck directly in the line, knocking a stack of muskets in all directions, and killed Corporal David Taylor and wounded private William S. Bowers of Company I.

He was reinterred from his original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery during or before 1867.

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 The quote above from Brinkerhoff.2 His service from the Roster.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

c. 1840

09/16/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD