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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

John B. Lockhart

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 28th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted in Hazleton on 12 June 1861 and mustered into service as a Sergeant in Company A, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry on 28 June in Philadelphia.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the arm action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of his wounds at the Corps hospital in Harpers Ferry on 11 December 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Card File.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

12/11/1862; Harpers Ferry, VA; burial in Forty Fort Cemetery, Forty Fort, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. 1, pp. 439 - 442 [AotW citation 8017]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 23124]

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