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Federal (USV)

Private

Joseph R. Yemmons

(? - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Danbury, he enlisted as a Private in Company E, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 6 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He died of disease in Weverton (or Cumberland) Maryland on 10 November 1862.

After the War

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

References & notes

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

Death

11/10/1862; Weverton, 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 4389]

2   State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889  [AotW citation 25091]