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(c. 1839 - 1862)
Home State: Ohio
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Ohio Infantry
Before Antietam
Born in Washington Township, Fayette County, PA, he was at Perry in Wood County, OH with his family by 1850, and was a 19 year old there in 1860. He served in Company F, 8th Infantry for 3 months mustering on 24 April 1861 in Fremont, OH. He then enlisted in Company F, 8th Ohio Infantry (3 years) at age 21 on 5 June 1861. He was appointed Sergeant, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the left ankle in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #3 (in the New Church) in Frederick, MD on 1 October and died there of wounds on 6 October 1862.
References & notes
His service basics from the State of Ohio,1 as Jonas Basler. Sawyer2 has him as Jonas Bosler. Nelson3 has him as killed in action and as Private Jonas Bosler. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,4 also as Basler. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 & 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
c. 1839
Death
10/06/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 2, pp. 250 - 256 [AotW citation 14739]
2 Sawyer, Franklin, and George A. Groot, editor, A Military History of the 8th Regiment Ohio Vol. Inf'y, Cleveland: Fairbanks & Co., Printers, 1881 [AotW citation 32291]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 137 [AotW citation 16398]
4 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 #3 [AotW citation 32292]