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(c. 1832 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Then a 26 year old merchant, he arrived in New York from Bremen aboard the Elise & Mathilde on 9 July 1858. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company F, 7th NY Infantry on 23 April 1861, was promoted to Sergeant on 5 May, and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Company E on 27 January 1862. He was appointed First Lieutenant of Company I on 1 May.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the lungs in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated in a field hospital near the battlefield in Keedysville, MD but died there of his wounds, date not given.
After the War
He was reinterred from his original burial in Keedysville to the National Cemetery in about 1867.
References & notes
His burial from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the Adjutant General,2 who had him killed outright at Antietam. Wound and hospital details from Nelson.3 Personal details from the United States Germans to America Index, 1850-1897 (National Archives, College Park, MD), online from FamilySearch [free login required]. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
c. 1832; Saxony, GERMANY
Death
1862; Keedysville, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3807]
2 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1899, Ser. No. 18, pg. 208 [AotW citation 28483]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, page 291 [AotW citation 28484]