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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles Bonfanti

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

From Owen County, IN, he enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company H, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1863

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital (GH) #4 in Frederick, MD on 28 September and sent back to his company on 10 November 1862. He was promoted to Sergeant, date not given, and mustered out in Indianapolis on 6 June 1864.

References & notes

Wound and hospital information from Nelson1 and the Patient List.2 His service basics from the Adjutant General.3

Birth

c. 1841

Notes

1 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 136 [AotW citation 16486]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.783 [AotW citation 33376]

3 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, p. 285 [AotW citation 33377]

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