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Federal (USV)

Private

Andrew Jackson White

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A shoemaker's son, in 1860 he was a 19 year old living with his parents and siblings at Philipsburg in Centre County, PA. He enlisted there on 12 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry on 16 October in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

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

After the War

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

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 as A.J. White. Service information from the Card File.2 Personal details from family genealogists, as Andrew J. White, and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave, as A. Jackson White.

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 4346]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 23236]

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