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Federal (USV)

Private

Rufus Preble

(1843 - 1862)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 17 year old farmhand living with his parents and siblings in Winslow, ME. He enlisted on 5 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Casualty information from Hyde.1 His service from the Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3 Personal details from family genealogists, at least one as Rufus Prebble, and the US Census of 1860. Thanks to descendant Jon for additional information and for bringing him to our attention.

Birth

02/01/1843; Winslow, ME

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 6641]

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. 177 [AotW citation 20810]

3 State of Maine, Maine State Archives, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Card Index, 1861-1865, Augusta (ME): Department of the Secretary of State, c. 2000 [AotW citation 29277]

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