Heinrich Otten

(? - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 3rd Pennsylvania Reserves

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He enlisted in Company A, 3rd Pennsylvania Reserves on 17 June 1861.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The remainder of the War:
He died of his wounds at the Smoketown Hospital near the battlefield on 12 October 1862.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Details from Woodward2, who lists him as Henry Otten.

Death Date: 10/12/1862 Death Place: Smoketown, MD Burial Place: 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 4008]

2 Woodward, Evan M, History of the Third Pennsylvania Reserve, Trenton: MacCrellish & Quigley, 1883, Appdx. B, pg. 15 [AotW citation 11975]

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