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Federal (USV)

Private

James A. Witham

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, he enlisted on 14 August 1862 as Private, Company A, 16th Maine Infantry.

On the Campaign

He died, probably of disease, in Sharpsburg, MD on 30 September 1862.

After the War

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

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from Maine.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1839

Death

09/30/1862; 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 4374]

2 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863 [AotW citation 25185]

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