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Federal (USA)

Private

John Hitz

(c. 1834 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: 2nd United States Artillery, Battery A

Before Antietam

A 27 year old, he enlisted in Buffalo, NY on 7 November 1861 as a Private in Battery A, 2nd United States Artillery.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Registers.1

Birth

c. 1834; Aigle, SWITZERLAND

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 142, p. 349 [AotW citation 30471]

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