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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Andrew J. Icenhower

(1842 - 1862)

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Virginia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was an 18 year old blacksmith when he mustered as Private, Company D, 4th Virginia Infantry on 30 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, and died in an ambulance the same day.

The rest of the War

He was originally buried "On Ben, Grave's [Grove] farm in first field on right hand side of Shepherdstown road ... the farm did belong to J. H. Grove", near the battlefield at Sharpsburg. Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett,1 who has him as A.J. Igenhower. Service and other details from James I. Robertson's 4th Virginia Infantry (roster, 1985) via the Historical Data Systems database. Birth details from family genealogists.

Birth

1842; Rockbridge County, VA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4751]

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