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Federal (USV)

Private

Andrew J. Wilson

(c. 1834 - ?)

Home State: Minnesota

Branch of Service: Sharpshooters

Unit: Minnesota Sharpshooters, Second Company

Before Antietam

He enlisted as Private, 2nd Company, Minnesota Sharpshooters on 24 December 1861 in St. Paul at age 28.

On the Campaign

He was seriously wounded in the arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was home on furlough to at least December 1862 and transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps on 1 July 1863.

References & notes

Service from Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars.1

Birth

c. 1834

Notes

1 State of Minnesota, Board of Commissioners, Minnesota in the Civil War and Indian Wars 1861-1865, 2 volumes, St. Paul: Pioneer Press Company, 1890-93, Vol. 1, pg. 518 [AotW citation 21314]

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