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Federal (USV)

Private

John Whalen

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 82nd New York Infantry (2nd Militia)

Before Antietam

He enlisted at age 20 in New York City, and mustered in as Private, Company B, 82nd New York Infantry on 30 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

References & notes

Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History1, which lists him as James Whale. Service data from the State of New York2, which says his last name also recorded as Whaler.

Birth

c. 1841

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 4342]

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 30 (for the year 1901), pg. 485 [AotW citation 8386]

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