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Federal (USV)

Private

George Keck

(1840 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 128th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Giving his age as 22, he enlisted in Allentown on 8 August 1862 and mustered as Private, Company D, 128th Pennsylvania Infantry on 13 August in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Register.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1840

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Linden Street Cemetery, Allentown, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11177]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant General's Office, Register of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, 16 volumes, Harrisburg [AotW citation 23907]

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