John M. Peters

Age 22, he enlisted on 1 July 1861 at Middletown and mustered into service as a Private, Company G, 6th Pennsylvania Reserves on 27 July in Washington, DC.

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

He died of wounds at a field hospital on the Hoffman Farm near the battlefield on 19 September 1862.

Service information from Bates1 and the Card File, both of which say he was killed outright on 17 September. Death details from a casualty list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

02/09/1841

09/19/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Middletown Cemetery, Middletown, PA