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Federal (USV)

Private

Nicholas Young

(c. 1836 - 1863)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 108th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He was age 26 when he enlisted at Rochester, and mustered in as Private, Company B, 108th New York Infantry on 14 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 29 September but died of wounds on 11 January 1863 in Frederick, MD.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service data from the State of New York2. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1836

Death

01/11/1863; Frederick, 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 4393]

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, Issue 34 (for the year 1903) [AotW citation 8868]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.896 [AotW citation 22143]

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