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Federal (USV)

Private

Richard Montgomery

(1830 - 1862)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

From Ohio, he enlisted in Company D, 6th Wisconsin Infantry on 10 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from State of Wisconsin1. Life dates from his gravesite on Findagrave.

Birth

10/30/1830 in PA

Death

09/14/1862; South Mountain, MD; burial in River Styx Cemetery, River Styx, OH

Notes

1   State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, pp. 511 - 512  [AotW citation 10353]