J. Murkland

Federal (USV)

Sergeant

John Murkland

(1835 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 26, machinist from Fitchburg. He was in Company B.

The rest of the War

Commissioned Captain 18 September 1862. Killed at Gettysburg 3 July 1863 in command of Company G.

References & notes

Basic information from Commonwealth of Massachusetts1. His photograph from one in the MOLLUS Massachusetts Collection2.

Birth

1835 in SCOTLAND

Death

07/03/1862; Gettysburg, PA; burial in Lowell, MA

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pp. 145 - 154 [AotW citation 5627]

2 US Army, Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC), Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS)-Massachusetts Photograph Collection, Published 2009, <https://arena.usahec.org/web/arena>, Source page: pg. 4928 [AotW citation 6940]

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