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James D. Simpson from Delaware.
Service era: Civil War
Military history: 1st Infantry, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, II Corps;
Date of death: Wednesday, August 14, 1963
Death details: Shot at Gettysburg, died at Tilton General Hospital, Wilmington, Delaware
Source: These Honored Dead
John E. Jewett from Zanesville, Ohio, Muskingum county.
Service era: Civil War
Military history: 23rd Ohio
Date of death: Thursday, February 14, 1963
Death details: Died in Weston, West Virginia when a loaded gun was thrown and accidentally went off, hitting him in the foot.
Source: “Hayes”, Cincinnati Enquirer (1865)
John A. Seames.
Service era: Civil War
Military history: 40th Iowa
Date of death: Wednesday, October 1, 1941
Death details: Died in Confederate prison
Cemetery: Camp Ford, Tyler, Texas
Source: U.S. Quartermasters Department
William Renshal.
Service era: Civil War
Military history: 122nd United States Colored Troops
Date of death: Friday, August 1, 1941
Cemetery: Chorpus Cristi, Texas
Source: U.S. Quartermasters Department
Florena Budwin from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Service era: Civil War
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: Fought alongside her husband in the Union Army. She was captured near Charleston and later died while still in cativity working as a prison-nurse in the Confederate Florence Stockade.
Source: American Battle Monuments Commission
John F. Reynolds.
Service era: Civil War
Date of death: Unknown
Source: These Honored Dead
Amos Humiston.
Children: Three
Service era: Civil War
Military history: Company C, 154th New York
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: Body discovered after battle in Gettysburg. He was holding an ambrotype of his three children.
Source: These Honored Dead
John F. Julian from Vernon, Connecticut.
Service era: Civil War
Military history: Company D
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: Received compound fracture of the head at Gettysburg
Source: These Honored Dead
Frank J. Benson from Brookfield, Connecticut.
Service era: Civil War
Military history: 17th Infantry; Company C
Date of death: Unknown
Source: These Honored Dead
Theodore Blackman from Bethel, Connecticut.
Service era: Civil War
Military history: 17th Infantry
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: Killed in action at Gettysburg
Source: These Honored Dead