Harrison White

From Philadelphia, he enlisted there in Company H, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry on 11 July 1861. He transferred to Company B the next day.

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and died about midnight in a hospital on the Hoffman Farm.

He was originally buried on the Hoffman Farm, Sharpsburg, but was reinterred in the new National Cemetery during or before 1867.

Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Further details and his picture - from a heavily retouched photograph - from Frassanito2.

His mother was Sarah Frederica Brinton. He was a cousin of Major General George Brinton McClellan and Surgeon John H. Brinton, USV.

1843; Philadelphia, PA

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD