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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Albert Snyder

(1829 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 51st Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 32, he enlisted on 9 October 1861 in Lewisburg, and mustered into service in Harrisburg as a Sergeant in Company K, 51st Pennsylvania Infantry on 12 November.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting Farm near Keedysville, MD but died there of wounds on 27 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Card File,2 which says he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, undated. Hospital detail from Nelson.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

09/01/1829

Death

09/27/1862; Keedysville, MD; burial in Harmony Cemetery, Milton, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11567]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 23181]

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. 395 [AotW citation 23182]

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