Jacob Airgood (1842-1863) - Find a Grave Memorial

Jacob Airgood Veteran

Birth

1842

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA

Death

20 Sep 1863 (aged 20–21)

Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee, USA

Burial

Stones River National Cemetery

Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map

Plot

Unknown per National Park Service

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Jacob Airgood was a Private in Co. E., 74th Indiana Infantry Volunteers. He enrolled in Goshen, Indiana on July 28, 1862 and mustered into service on August 21, 1862 at Indianapolis to serve 3 years or for the course of the war. He was 5' 6.5" tall with light complexion, blue eyes and sandy hair. His occupation was listed as "engineer." He possessed 1 blouse, 1 pr. pants, 1 pr. shoes, 1 pr. drawers, 2 pr. socks, 1 shirt, 1 cap, 1 blanket, 1 oil blanket, 1 haversack and 1 canteen.Jacob was not listed on the muster roll for July and August 1863. It appears he entered the hospital on Aug. 3 or Aug. 13, 1863. He died at the hospital "General Hospital #1" on Sept. 20, 1863 in Murfreesboro and was buried that day. Information from the National Archives Complete File. See "Inscription" for additional details.

Inscription

Jacob Airgood has no gravestone with his name on it. His exact burial location at Stones River Nat'l Cemetery is unknown. Jacob Airgood's "Complete File" papers dated 1863 from the National Archives say his burial locality and grave is "1221." However, Jacob Airgood is not buried at Stones River National Cemetery at the stone marked "1221" because the cemetery's numbering system is different; it is the order of burial for the soldiers after the cemetery was created in 1865 by Abraham Lincoln. Jacob Airgood was not the 1221st person buried at the cemetery but he is certainly in the oldest section of the cemetery. His body was likely moved to the new cemetery from somewhere nearby. Unidentified burials are mixed in with the known burials; they are not in one separate location.
His name appears on the Stones River National Cemetery website, top of page 5, but with no grave number.
https://www.nps.gov/stri/learn/historyculture/upload/Interments-for-Web.pd
The National Park Service was very helpful with explaining how the burials were placed in 1865 after so many soldiers had already died before the creation of the cemetery.