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Maj. Gen. Joseph King Fenno Mansfield

Born 22 Dec 1803 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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Son of Henry Mansfield and Mary (Fenno) Mansfield

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Died 18 Sep 1862 at age 58 in George Line Farm, Sharpsburg, Washington, Maryland, United States

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Maj. Gen. Joseph Mansfield Died of Wounds at Sharpsburg during the United States Civil War.

Wikipedia says that Joseph King Fenno Mansfield (December 22, 1803 – September 18, 1862) was a career United States Army officer, civil engineer, and a Union general in the American Civil War who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam. He died of wounds described by Dr. Patrick Henry Flood as being "in the right breast, the ball penetrating about two inches from the nipple, and passing out the back, near the edge of the shoulder blade," at the George Line farm field hospital in Sharpsburg

Maj. Gen. Joseph Mansfield served with the United States Army during the Mexican-American War
Service Started: unknown
Unit(s): unknown
Service Ended: unknown

Maj. Gen. Joseph Mansfield served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: Oct 1, 1817
Mustered out: Sep 18, 1862 (DOW)
Side: USA
Regiment(s): XII Corps, Union Army

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Wikipedia:Joseph_K._Mansfield

https://www.nps.gov/resources/person.htm%3Fid%3D182

https://www.civilwar.org/learn/biographies/joseph-kf-mansfield

https://connecticuthistory.org/one-of-the-honored-dead-general-j-k-f-mansfield/

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Army/USMA/Cullums_Register/287*.html

James V. Murfin, The Gleam of Bayonets: The Battle of Antietam and Robert E. Lee's Maryland Campaign September 1862 (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2004), 30.

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Joseph King Fenno Mansfield (1803 - 1862)

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