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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Charles Sulz

(1826 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 20th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 26 and living in Brooklyn, he enlisted as Private, Company C, 20th New York Infantry on 3 May 1861. He was promoted to Corporal on 30 November 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

His arm was amputated, and he died of his wounds on 15 October 1862 in a Baltimore hospital.

References & notes

Basic information from State of New York1. Further details from Jeffrey I. Richman's research on soldiers buried in Greenwood hosted online by Gary Kappesser.

Birth

1826 in GERMANY

Death

10/15/1862; Baltimore, MD; burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY

Notes

1   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, Issue 20, pp. 1 - 174  [AotW citation 5351]