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2LT Jacob Claypool

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2LT Jacob Claypool Veteran

Birth
Fountain County, Indiana, USA
Death
17 Jul 1864 (aged 24)
Allatoona, Bartow County, Georgia, USA
Burial
Attica, Fountain County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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"Jacob served as a three-months soldier at the beginning of the war. He reenlisted and was mustered into the service August 6 1862, as an orderly sergeant in the 63rd Ind. Vols.; he was promoted to second lieutenant and had been recommended for a captaincy but when Sherman's army was on the Chattahoochie river he received an injury there by a horse stepping on his breast when he was down, and died at Altoona Georgia, July 7 1864, before his commission came to hand. His remains were brought home and deposited in the Shawnee Cemetery, October 27 1865." - History of Fountain County, Indiana, by H.W. Beckwith, 1881
"Jacob served as a three-months soldier at the beginning of the war. He reenlisted and was mustered into the service August 6 1862, as an orderly sergeant in the 63rd Ind. Vols.; he was promoted to second lieutenant and had been recommended for a captaincy but when Sherman's army was on the Chattahoochie river he received an injury there by a horse stepping on his breast when he was down, and died at Altoona Georgia, July 7 1864, before his commission came to hand. His remains were brought home and deposited in the Shawnee Cemetery, October 27 1865." - History of Fountain County, Indiana, by H.W. Beckwith, 1881

Gravesite Details

2nd Lt. Co. H 63 Reg. Vol. at Allatooma, Cass County, Georgia



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