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Federal (USV)

Private

Samuel Emerson

(? - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 30, a blacksmith from Webster on enlistment in July 1862. He was in Company H.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Died of wounds 26 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from Commonwealth of Massachusetts1.

Death

09/26/1862

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. 184 - 185  [AotW citation 5864]