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Federal (USV)

Private

James Lewin, Jr.

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, from Houlton, he mustered as Private, Company A, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Casualty information from Hyde.1 Service from the Adjutant General.2

His father James (b. Halifax, NS), then age 38, enlisted in Company D in 1861, was wounded at Cold Harbor, VA in June 1864 and had his right leg amputated. He survived, mustering out in October 1864.

Birth

c. 1842

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6606]

2 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863, pg. 166 [AotW citation 20805]

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