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Federal (USV)

Private

John B. Mathews

(? - 1862)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

From Madison, he enlisted in Company H, 7th Wisconsin Infantry on 17 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds at Middletown, MD on 10 October 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from State of Wisconsin1.

Death

10/10/1862; Middletown, MD

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. 566 - 568  [AotW citation 10645]