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Federal (USV)

Private

Melville Walker

(? - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 37, clicker from Worcester on enlistment in December 1861. He was in Company D.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds 19 September 1862 at the Hoffman House, Sharpsburg, MD.

References & notes

Basic information from Commonwealth of Massachusetts1.

Death

09/19/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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. 160 - 162  [AotW citation 5720]