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Federal (USV)

Corporal

John W. Heath

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 24, a shoemaker from Brimfield, he enlisted as Corporal, Company F, 15th Massachusetts Infantry in July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds at a field hospital on the Hoffman Farm near the battlefield on 24 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Commonwealth of Massachusetts,1 which says he was killed outright on 17 September. Death details from a casualty list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1837; Plymouth, NH

Death

09/24/1862; 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. 171 - 176 [AotW citation 5784]

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