(c. 1833 - 1894)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 9th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 28 years. Enlisted April 23, 1861 at New York City; mustered in as Private, Company E on May 4, 1861, to serve two years.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability March 26, 1863, at Washington, DC.
References & notes
Basic information from State of New York1, which lists him as Jaiger. Death year and burial place from the Journal of the 27th Annual Session of the Encampment of the Department of the Potomac, GAR, Washington DC, 1895, pg. 44.
Birth
c. 1833
Death
1894; burial in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 18 (for the year 1899), pp. 691 - 704 [AotW citation 12710]