Including one of my ancestors. A second one also served, but survived. The one who died, died of typhus. His unit, a Michigan infantry regiment, was guarding a Union reserve artillery park between the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. The location is now a sub-division called “Cannon Ridge”. I doubt that many of its residents know where the name came from.
One of the less known, but horrible, statistics from the Civil War is that, of the roughly 600,000 troops on both sides who died, only about 175,000 died of wounds. All the others, like your ancestor, died of disease. Indeed, typhus, the disease that killed your ancestor, probably killed more than half of the doomed army that Napoleon marched into Russia in 1812.
We need a facebook page to demand reparations from the descendants of slaves.