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Federal (USV)

Corporal

David Van Cott

(c. 1836 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 9th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 25 years. Enlisted April 23, 1861 at New York City; mustered in as Private, Company A, May 4, 1861, to serve two years. He was promoted Corporal August 19, 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

Died on 26 September of wounds received at Antietam.

References & notes

Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service data from State of New York2.

Birth

c. 1836

Death

09/26/1862; 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 4292]

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 18 (for the year 1899), pg. 767 [AotW citation 12580]

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