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Federal (USV)

Private

George Myron Van Ornum

(1839 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 22, he enlisted on 1 May 1861 at Edwards for two years and mustered as Private, Company D, 16th New York Infantry on 15 May.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial to the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 as G. Myron Van Ornam. His service from the Adjutant General2 as Myron G. Van Orman. Details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as M.H. Van Arnum.

Birth

1839; Edwards, St. Lawrence County, NY

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, 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 4294]

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, For the Year 1899, Ser. No. 19, pg. 668 [AotW citation 22556]

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