Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Wisconsin Infantry
Before Antietam
From Hancock, he enlisted in Company E, 7th Wisconsin Infantry on 17 June 1861 as a Musician. Promoted to Corporal.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
Wounded again in action at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863.
References & notes
Basic information from State of Wisconsin1.
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. 554 - 557 [AotW citation 10583]