Henry Overholt

Not quite 25 years old, he enlisted in Doylestown on 8 August 1862 and mustered as Private, Company F, 128th Pennsylvania Infantry on 15 August in Harrisburg.

He was mortally wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He died of his wounds on 21 September 1862, probably at a field hospital near the battlefield.

Service information from Bates1 and the Register.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave; his birth date calculated from his age at death - 25 years and a month - inscribed on his stone.

08/21/1837

09/21/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Doylestown Mennonite Cemetery, Doylestown, PA