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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Joseph M. Becker

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Antietam

From Huntington County, he enlisted and mustered on 12 August 1862 as Private, Company F, 125th Pennsylvania Infantry and was appointed Sergeant Major of the regiment 4 days later.

On the Campaign

He was with the regiment at Antietam.

The rest of the War

He mustered out on 18 May 1863 in Harrisburg.

References & notes

Service information and his presence at Antietam from Wallace,1 with further details from Bates.2

Notes

1 Wallace, William W. (Chairman), and the Regimental Committee, History of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Philadelphia: J.B,. Lippincott Co., 1906, pg. 80 [AotW citation 1256]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 26209]

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