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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

William Gratz

(c. 1831 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 124th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 31, he enlisted on 6 August 1862 in West Chester and mustered as Sergeant, Company F, 124th Pennsylvania Infantry on 11 August in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at a hospital in Chambersburg, PA and discharged on a Surgeon's Certificate on 12 February 1863.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Register.2 Wound and hospital details from Nelson.3

Birth

c. 1831

Notes

1   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871  [AotW citation 11143]

2   Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant General's Office, Register of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, 16 volumes, Harrisburg  [AotW citation 23803]

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. 227  [AotW citation 23804]