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Photographer: Library of Congress
Caption: Major General Joseph King Fenno Mansfield (1803-1862)
Additional Description: After being shot in the chest near the West Woods, he was taken to a field hospital at the George Line farm in Sharpsburg, where he died the next morning. He is buried in Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut, and received a posthumous promotion to major general, backdated from July 18, 1862, for his gallantry at Antietam.
Submitted: October 20, 2015, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p334475
File Size: 0.099 Megabytes

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