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Federal (USV)

Private

John D. Nelson

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 108th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Enlisted in July 1862 at age 15. He was in Company F.

The rest of the War

WIA Gettysburg 3 July 1863 and at the Wilderness on 8 May 1864.

References & notes

Basic information from Washburn1.

Notes

1   Washburn, George H., A Complete Military History and Record of the 108th Regiment N.Y. Vols., Rochester (NY): Press of E.R. Andrews, 1894, pp. 286 - 296  [AotW citation 8976]