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Federal (USV)

Private

Benjamin Litchfield

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 24, a provision dealer in Boston on enlistment in April 1861. He was in Company D.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Discharged for wounds 29 November 1862 at Boston.

References & notes

Basic information from Commonwealth of Massachusetts1.

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. 94 - 96  [AotW citation 6924]