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Richard Newton Gilson

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Name: Richard Newton Gilson

Affiliation: Union

Unit: 1st Potomac Home Brigade Cav.

Race: White

Place of Birth/Residence: Emmitsburg, Frederick County, MD

Enlistment Date: 08/27/1862

Company: C

Rank at End of Service: Private

Notes:

Died on 8/3/1864 of wounds sustained in action.


Source(s):

Image from U.S. Army Military History Institute; James A. Helman, History of Emmitsburg, Maryland (Frederick, MD: Citizen Press, 1906), 109.

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