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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Samuel L. Ball

(1835 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted as Sergeant in Company E, 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry on 10 August 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died at a hospital in Hagerstown, MD on 25 September 1862. He was initially buried in a plot near the Alms House in Hagerstown.

References & notes

Basic information from Banes1 and Bates.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

06/12/1835

Death

09/25/1862; Hagerstown, MD; burial in Lancaster Cemetery, Lancaster, PA

Notes

1 Banes, Charles H., History of the Philadelphia Brigade. Sixty-ninth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and One hundred and sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers , Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1876, pp. 307 - 311 [AotW citation 8649]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 17639]

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