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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry F. Bugbee

(c. 1830 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 57th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 30 year old teamster in Poughkeepsie, NY. He enlisted there on 20 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 57th NY Infantry on 4 September.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot through the left leg in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp A in Frederick, MD on 6 October and died there of wounds on 19 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York.1 Wound and hospital details from Nelson2 and the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah C. Van Vliet (1833-) and they had at least 3 children by 1860.

Birth

c. 1830

Death

10/19/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 26 (for 1900) [AotW citation 7766]

2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 147 [AotW citation 16938]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #445 [AotW citation 30388]

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