Bell, Sutherland

Rank: Private

Unit: H Co, 2d Dragoons

Enlisted: August 10, 1840 in New York, New York. He was 25.

Date of birth: 1815

Hometown: Albany, New York

Occupation prior to enlistment: Comb maker

Campaign: Second Seminole War

Died: 11 September 1841

Cause of death: Chronic diarrhea

Location of fatality: Saint John‘s Bluff, Florida

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Place of interment: Saint Augustine National Cemetery in Saint Augustine, Florida

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