The REAL Private Henry Struble

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From The National Museum of Civil War Medicine

After the bloody fight at Antietam, many soldiers were buried unidentified, or misidentified, as is the case of one PVT Henry Struble. After three days of harrowing fighting, Private Henry Struble from Company C, 8th PA Reserves was listed as a casualty and buried with a headstone bearing his name after a body had been found holding a canteen with his name on it. Once PVT Struble was found alive, it became known that the man who was buried with a canteen bearing his name was an unknown soldier that Struble was stopping to help after the fighting. After the war ended, for the rest of his life Struble sent flowers to his grave every Memorial Day to remember the unknown soldier that lay in place of him. The real Henry Struble passed away on June 2, 1926 at the age of 83 years old.
Image Credit: Find A Grave - Henry Struble

 

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From The National Museum of Civil War Medicine

After the bloody fight at Antietam, many soldiers were buried unidentified, or misidentified, as is the case of one PVT Henry Struble. After three days of harrowing fighting, Private Henry Struble from Company C, 8th PA Reserves was listed as a casualty and buried with a headstone bearing his name after a body had been found holding a canteen with his name on it. Once PVT Struble was found alive, it became known that the man who was buried with a canteen bearing his name was an unknown soldier that Struble was stopping to help after the fighting. After the war ended, for the rest of his life Struble sent flowers to his grave every Memorial Day to remember the unknown soldier that lay in place of him. The real Henry Struble passed away on June 2, 1926 at the age of 83 years old.
Image Credit: Find A Grave - Henry Struble


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Good find. Reminds me of @lelliott19 's fine work on Richard Kirkland, but with a twist

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A Case of Mistaken Identity | Antietam / Sharpsburg

Findagrave.com If you visit plot #3829 at the Antietam National Cemetery, you will see the grave of Private Henry Struble of Co. C, 8th Pennsylvania Reserves (37th Pennsylvania). Struble was killed during the fighting at Frosttown Gap during the Battle of South Mountain on September 14, 1862...

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