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J.A. Raulston

J.A. Raulston

Federal (USV)

Private

James A. Raulston

(1841 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 24th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, he enlisted at Oswego and mustered as Private, Company C, 24th New York Infantry on 17 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from State of New York1. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the collection of the New York State Military Museum discovered and kindly provided by Jim Buchanan.

Birth

07/21/1841; Onondaga County, NY

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Riverside Cemetery, Oswego, NY

Notes

1   State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1899, Ser. No. 20, pg. 635  [AotW citation 6248]