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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Norman McHardy

(c. 1830 - 1863)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

Of Scottish descent from La Crosse, he enlisted in Company B, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry on 18 April 1861 as Corporal.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the right shoulder and arm in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was first in a field hospital in Keedysville, MD then at Frederick, MD , where he died of his Antietam wounds on 30 March 1863.

References & notes

Basic information from State of Wisconsin1. Details from Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle (1898), fourth series of papers read in 1892-97 before the Minnesota Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, pg. 551.

Birth

c. 1830 in SCOTLAND

Death

03/30/1863; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, pp. 350 - 352 [AotW citation 10130]

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