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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

Magnus Moltke

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Maryland Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20, he enlisted in New York City on 25 April 1861 and mustered on 9 May as a Private in Company E, 5th New York Infantry - Duryee's Zouvaes. He was discharged on 9 November to take a commission as 2nd Lieutenant of Company C, 5th Maryland Infantry, which he accepted, to date from 10 October 1861. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 9 September 1862 and transferred to Company E.

On the Campaign

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

After the War

He was originally buried in Keedysville, MD, then reinterred in the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 as Magnus Molkte, and Wilmer,2 who lists him as Magness Moltke. Burial details from the History,2 as ___ Moltrie. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as Magnus Molkte. Thanks to Larry Clemens for the poke to look further into Lt. Moltke.

Birth

c. 1841

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

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, For the Year 1898, Ser. No. 17, p. 920 [AotW citation 32125]

2 Wilmer, L. Allison, and J.H. Jarrett, George H. Vernon, State Commissioners, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5, Baltimore: Press of Guggenheimer, Weil & Co., 1898, Vol. 1, pp. 196 - 199 [AotW citation 14317]

3 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869, p. 76 [AotW citation 30465]

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