Home | Overview | Battle Maps | Participants | ORs | Exhibits | Bibliography
Site Logo: Click to go to the Home page
Person
[no picture yet]
[no picture yet]

Federal (USV)

Private

Henry R. Gotwalts

Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 118th Pennsylvania Infantry

starstar


Before the Antietam Campaign:
He was in Company E.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was captured in action on 20 September 1862.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Basic information from Smith1. Captured again at Cold Harbor, Virginia on 2 June 1864. He died while a prisoner at Andersonville, Georgia, about 25 December 1864. His name also spelled Gotwals.






Notes

1   Smith, John L., and Survivor's Association, History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 2nd Edition, Philadelphia: J.L. Smith, Map Publisher, 1905, pp. 707 - 710  [AotW citation 2040]



« Search for Another Participant