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Federal (USV)

Private

Simon Troup

(? - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th Pennsylvania Reserves

Before Antietam

He enlisted in Company B, 6th Pennsylvania Reserve Infantry on 6 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was reinterred from his original burial on South Mountain to the new National Cemetery during or before 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service data from Bates2.

Death

09/14/1862; South Mountain, 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 4275]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11987]

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