Burke, John
MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 43, credited to Montpelier, VT
Unit(s): 10th VT INF
Service: enl 7/18/62, m/i 9/1/62, Pvt, Co. B, 10th VT INF, d/dis 11/9/63, in ambulance near Brandy Station, VA (typhoid fever)
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VITALS
Birth: 1815, Ireland
Death: 11/09/1863
Burial: St. Augustine Cemetery, Montpelier, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Kathy Valloch
Findagrave Memorial #: 117388537
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Not Found
Portrait?: Unknown
College?: Not Found
Veterans Home?: Not Found
(If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war)
Remarks: Died in Regt. Hospital of Typhoid in Lawrence Junction, VA. WPA Graves Registration Card indicates that this is a cenotaph.
10th Vt. History off-site
DESCENDANTS
3rd Great Grandfather of Kathleen Nelson, East Montpelier, VT
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BURIAL:
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St. Augustine Cemetery, Montpelier, VT
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Obituary
John Burke, Co. B, died in ambulance this morning with typhoid fever; he was sick but a few days. He has been a good soldier.
Source: Montpelier Daily Journal, November 17, 1863.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.