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Lt Jacob Beaver, kia

Lieutenant Jacob Gilbert Beaver.

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, 51st Pennsylvania Infantry on 16 November 1861 and promoted to First Lieutenant on 6 June 1862.

He was killed in action at the Lower Bridge – later known as Burnside’s – at Antietam on 17 September 1862, age 22.


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