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Sgt Henry C Lyon

11 January 2021

Henry Lyon was mortally wounded by a gunshot through his lower spine at Antietam and died in a hospital in Frederick, MD on 5 October 1862. His photograph was published in Desolating this Fair Country: the Civil War diary and letters of Lt. Henry C. Lyon, 34th New York (McFarland, 1999) edited by Emily N. Radigan.