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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

John Packer

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

From Stockton, he enlisted in Company G, 7th Wisconsin Infantry on 12 August 1861. Promoted to Corporal and Sergeant.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

Wounded again in action in the Wilderness, VA in May 1864.

References & notes

Basic information from State of Wisconsin1.

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. 563 - 564 [AotW citation 10621]

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