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Federal (USV)

Private

Jeremiah S. Norton

(c. 1843 - 1863)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, an unmarried sailor from Phippsburg, he enlisted there as a Private in Company G, 7th Maine Infantry on 4 January 1862 and mustered on 21 January.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He transferred to Company K in 1863 and was killed at Salem Heights, VA on 4 May 1863.

References & notes

Antietam status from Hyde,1 as J.H. Norton. His service from the Adjutant General.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850.

Birth

c. 1843; Bath, ME

Death

05/04/1863; Salem Heights, VA

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 6664]

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 [AotW citation 27851]

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