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Federal (USV)

Private

David Burtchell

Home State: New Jersey

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd New Jersey Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted in Company H, 2nd New Jersey Infantry on 29 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 14 September 1862 at Crampton's Gap.

The rest of the War

Discharged at US Army General Hospital, Newark, NJ on 2 May 1864 from wounds received in action on South Mountain.

References & notes

Basic information from State of New Jersey1.

Notes

1   State of New Jersey, Adjutant-General's Office, and William Scudder Stryker, Adjutant General, Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Trenton: John L. Murphy, Steam Book and Job Printer, 1876, Vol. 1, pp. 129 - 148  [AotW citation 14552]