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Have you looked at the NARA website? www.archives.gov
They have recomendations where to look. Also try the Rhode Island State Archives.
Ancestry also has this book online and Jacob Roe is on page 380.
"Forty-six months with the Fourth R.I. Volunteers in the War of 1861 to 1865 : comprising a history of the marches, battles, and camp life. R.I.: J.A. & R.A. Reid, printers, 1887."
For Jacob Roe they cite only that he "Served as a Private, killed at the the Battle of Antietem, Sept. 17, 1862." Again in my opinion since ther is no other notation or mention of his death and a burial or removal back to R.I. he was buried on the battle field and it's location is unknown or he is one of the Unknown tombstones or his burial was in a mass grave.
I would look for daily reports from military companies to the regimental headquarters, letters, diaries, memoirs of generals, captains and commanding officers of Rhode Island units as to what they did with their dead. These should be in the state archives or look at the Library of Congress for a record of a book/momoir that may be out of print.
Look at old newspapers, not only of the war years themelves but 5, 10, 20, 25, 50 etc year aniversaries for interviews of any Veterans of the battle and R.I. units.
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