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A.G. Easterbrook
(c. 1842 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 34th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted at age 19 on 1 May 1861 at Oneida, NY, and mustered into Company G, 34th New York Infantry as a Private on 15 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds at a field hospital on the Hoffman Farm near the battlefield on 24 September 1862.
References & notes
Service information from State of New York,1 which says he was killed outright on 17 September 1862. Death details from a casualty list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862. His picture from a CDV in the collection of Dean Nelson, administrator of the Museum of Connecticut History, posted on his blog by John Banks.
Birth
c. 1842
Death
09/24/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
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 22 (for the year 1900) [AotW citation 8283]