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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Owen Bock

(c. 1840 - 1863)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 81st Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 21 year old farmer in Carbon County, he enlisted at Lehighton on 4 September 1861 and mustered into service as Corporal, Company I, 81st Pennsylvania Infantry on 15 October 1861 in Washington, DC.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died in 1863 of wounds, place not given.

References & notes

Service information from Bates,1 as Owen Buck, and the Card File.2

Birth

c. 1840

Death

1863

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11790]

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 23371]

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