MILITARY · HISTORICAL MARKER

Civil War Burials

Hillsborough County, Florida
· Egmont Key Lighthouse Cemetery
Military
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During the Civil War, burials here included R. Angless, a 22-year-old landsman from New York, who died on August 15, 1864, of yellow fever; William H. Bradford, acting master's mate, who died on July 29, 1564, of yellow fever; James Cowen, also known as Collins, a 1st class boy aged 16, who died on August 1, 1864, of yellow fever; James E. Crosby, a 21-year-old acting master mate from Massachusetts, who died on July 9, 1864, of yellow fever; George P. Engell, a 21-year-old landsman, who died on August 13, 1864, of yellow fever; Ebeneser Field, seaman, who died on August 29, 1864, of yellow fever; Richard Fitzgerald, a 2nd class boy promoted to ordinary seaman, aged 19, who died on July 31, 1864, of yellow fever; John McConnell, seaman, whose additional information is unknown; Richard McKeon, a 24-year-old landsman from Ireland, who died on August 14, 1864, of yellow fever; John W. McLachlan, a 22-year-old paymaster's steward from New York, who died on August 4, 1864, of yellow fever; A. G. Post, hospital steward, who died on July 22, 1864, of yellow fever; Daniel Stone, a 36-year-old acting master's mate from Massachusetts, who died on August 30, 1864, of yellow fever; Michael J. Sullivan, a 19-year-old landsman promoted to coxswain, who died on February 7, 4865, of gunshot wounds; James Sutherland, landsman from Scotland, who died on September 17, 1864, of typhoid fever; Charles Travis, a 1st class boy aged 16 from Rock Hill, New York, who died on August 4, 1864, of yellow fever; T.W. Twining, a 30-year-old acting assistant paymaster, who died on August 14, 1864, of yellow fever; John Tyson, a 19-year-old of the U.S. Vol. Refuge Corps from Georgia, who died on July 17, 1864; E. H. Watkeys, a 33-year-old acting ensign from New York, who died on July 30, 1864, of yellow fever; and civilian and Union sympathizer John E. Whitehurst, who died of gunshot wounds in September 1862.
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