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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Palmer W. Hough

(? - 1863)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, an engineer in Boston on enlistment in June 1861. He was in Company B.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Captured 1 July 1863 at Gettysburg, PA and died 3 September 1863 at Annapolis, MD - a returned Prisoner of War.

References & notes

Basic information from Commonwealth of Massachusetts1.

Death

09/03/1863; Annapolis, MD

Notes

1   Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pp. 13 - 15  [AotW citation 6708]