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During the American Civil War, Camp Curtin was the primary point of training, organization, and dispatch for Pennsylvania volunters. Harrisburg's advantages as a railroad junction within a Commonwealth of undivided loyalty and its proximity to Washington invited troops from Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin and the Regular Army to use Camp Curtin.Following a major battle, the calamitous number of wounded soldiers who were concentrated in a small area demanded desperate ingenuity. One solution was dispersing the less severely wounded from places like Gettysburg and Sharpsburg to faraway places like Camp Curtin.The 155 wounded men who remain in Harrisburg Cemetery were not expected to die at the nearby Camp Curtin Post Hospital. For example, Pvt Alexes H. Bortman of the 125th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was shot in the hand at the Battle of Antietam and, at worse, would have been expected to lose only a forearm. When he and the others gave the last full measure of devotion, slow communication with their families and, perhaps, their families' lack of means left their remains in the care of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth provided them with a permanent home in the recently opened (1845) Harrisburg Cemetery.

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Pvt Humphrey Akin

unknown – 8 Dec 1862

Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA

Pvt Adam Alleman

8 Sep 1838 – 16 Dec 1862

Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA

Plot info: Sect Z, S Div

John Alstetter

unknown – 27 Nov 1862

Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA

Plot info: Sect Z, S Div

Pvt Adam Barnes

1841 – 6 Nov 1862

Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA

Plot info: Sect Z, S Div

Wilson Batty

unknown – 25 Mar 1864

Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA

Plot info: Sect Z, S Div

PVT John Beatel

1831 – 5 Apr 1865

Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA

Plot info: Sect Z, S Div

F W Becker

unknown – 30 Sep 1864

Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA

Plot info: Sect Z, S Div

Pvt Hiram Bennett

unknown – 23 Nov 1861

Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA

Plot info: Sect Z, S Div

Otis Benson

unknown – 23 Jan 1863

Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA

Plot info: Sect Z, S Div

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William Bice

unknown – 4 Oct 1862

Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA

Plot info: Sect Z, S Div

Pvt A Alexias Alexius Alexes H Boartman Bortman

17 Jul 1841 – 13 Oct 1862

Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA

Plot info: Section Z, South Division, #73

Pvt Curtis Borsteds Bostedo Bastido

1841 – 11 Feb 1862

Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA

Plot info: Sect Z, S Div

James T. Bowman

unknown – 22 Sep 1863

Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA

Pvt John Brown

unknown – 14 Jul 1865

Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA

Plot info: Sect Z, S Div

G T Brumbaught

unknown – 25 Jan 1862

Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA

Plot info: Sect Z, S Div

Pvt. Alden Buck

20 Apr 1836 – 22 Oct 1863

Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA

William Burns

1822 – 12 Oct 1863

Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA

Plot info: Sect Z, S Div

Thomas Carr

unknown – 27 Nov 1862

Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA

Plot info: Sect Z, S Div

Pvt James H Carson

unknown – 8 Jan 1862

Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA

Plot info: Sect Z, S Div

Henry M Cartell

unknown – 22 Dec 1861

Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA

Plot info: Sect Z, S Div

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