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Federal (USV)

Private

Edwin H. Wood

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 33rd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21 years, he enlisted 22 October 1861 at Bergen and mustered in as Private, Company G, 33rd New York Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was left behind (without further military record) and died of disease at Hagerstown, MD on 21 November 1862.

After the War

He was initially buried in Hagerstown and was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the State of New York.2

Birth

c. 1840

Death

11/21/1862; Hagerstown, 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 4381]

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 1900, Ser. No. 22, pg. 148 [AotW citation 25080]

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