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Jacob W. Harrington

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Jacob W. Harrington

Birth
Pennsylvania, USA
Death
22 Jul 1864 (aged 25–26)
Andersonville National Historic Site, Macon County, Georgia, USA
Burial
Andersonville National Historic Site, Macon County, Georgia, USA Add to Map
Plot
Site 3785
Memorial ID
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The correct spelling of his surname is "Herrington." In 1860, he was a wheelwright living with and/or working for wheelwright Marshall J. Udderzook in Sadsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, but is in the 1863 draft registration as a resident of Salisbury Township, Lancaster County.

A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-two at in Chester July 10, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Camp Carroll in Balitmore, Maryland, July 26 as a private with Co. A, 1st Pennsylvania Reserves (30th Pennsylvania Infantry). Captured on October 11, 1863, while "guarding private property" near Culpeper, Virginia, he was ultimately incarcerated in the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia, where he died in the prison hospital from the effects of dysentery.
The correct spelling of his surname is "Herrington." In 1860, he was a wheelwright living with and/or working for wheelwright Marshall J. Udderzook in Sadsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, but is in the 1863 draft registration as a resident of Salisbury Township, Lancaster County.

A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-two at in Chester July 10, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Camp Carroll in Balitmore, Maryland, July 26 as a private with Co. A, 1st Pennsylvania Reserves (30th Pennsylvania Infantry). Captured on October 11, 1863, while "guarding private property" near Culpeper, Virginia, he was ultimately incarcerated in the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia, where he died in the prison hospital from the effects of dysentery.

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