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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

John W. Parsons

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, from Easton, he mustered as Private, Company A, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861. He was appointed Regimental Sergeant-Major, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, age 25.

References & notes

Casualty information from Hyde,1 who has him as John B. Parsons. Service from the Adjutant General.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1837

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Ashland Municipal Cemetery, Ashland, ME

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 6696]

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 20812]

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