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Federal (USV)

Private

Jacob Maas

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 20th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21 years, he enlisted on 3 May 1861 at New York City to serve 2 years and mustered in as Private, Company A, 20th New York Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 27 September but he died there on 21 October 1862.

After the War

He was originally buried in Frederick but was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1, with service details from roster data posted online by Gary Kappesser. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave, as Jacob Mass.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

10/21/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3852]

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 #4.668 [AotW citation 25814]

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