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PVT Colby F. Shrader Jr.

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PVT Colby F. Shrader Jr.

Birth
Grayson County, Kentucky, USA
Death
18 Apr 1862 (aged 16–17)
Mound City, Pulaski County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Mound City, Pulaski County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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He enlisted in Company "I" 17th Kentucky Infantry Regiment of the Union Army on November 23, 1861. He was mustered into service on Januay 4, 1862 at Calhoun, McLean County, KY to serve 3 years or for the duration of the Civil War.

He was seriously wounded in the left arm and forearm in the Battle of Shiloh, Pittsburg Landing, TN on April 6-7, 1862. Records indicate that he was sent to Simons General Hospital, Mound City, IL and died there on April 15, 1862.

...—Neciosed fragment of the sternum and portion of left clavicle after gunshot fracture. Reduced to one-third- Spec. 3760, Sect. I, A. M. M. Case. —Private Colby Shrader;, Co. I, 17th Kentucky Volunteers, was wounded at the battle of Shiloh, April 7th, 1862, by a musket ball, which passed through the right arm into the thorax, lodging on the pleura. ...

Source - https://babel.hathitrust.org, page 523, courtesy of Charles Corbin.
He enlisted in Company "I" 17th Kentucky Infantry Regiment of the Union Army on November 23, 1861. He was mustered into service on Januay 4, 1862 at Calhoun, McLean County, KY to serve 3 years or for the duration of the Civil War.

He was seriously wounded in the left arm and forearm in the Battle of Shiloh, Pittsburg Landing, TN on April 6-7, 1862. Records indicate that he was sent to Simons General Hospital, Mound City, IL and died there on April 15, 1862.

...—Neciosed fragment of the sternum and portion of left clavicle after gunshot fracture. Reduced to one-third- Spec. 3760, Sect. I, A. M. M. Case. —Private Colby Shrader;, Co. I, 17th Kentucky Volunteers, was wounded at the battle of Shiloh, April 7th, 1862, by a musket ball, which passed through the right arm into the thorax, lodging on the pleura. ...

Source - https://babel.hathitrust.org, page 523, courtesy of Charles Corbin.


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