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(c. 1841 - 1862)
Home State: Ohio
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Ohio Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 20, he enlisted on 26 April 1861 as a Private in Company F, 8th Ohio Infantry for 3 months, and mustered out with them on 5 June 1861. He enlisted again the same day as a Corporal in the new Company F, 8th Ohio Infantry for 3 years' service. He was appointed Sergeant, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.
References & notes
His service basics from the State of Ohio,1 as Lewis Mathews (3-mo. regt.) and Lewis Matheson (3-yr. regt.), Sawyer,2 and the index to his Compiled Service Records, online from fold3. He's also in the Registers of Deaths of Volunteers among the Records of the (US ARmy's) Adjutant General's Office, online from the National Archives (thanks to Jim Buchanan) as L. Matthews, and Army Corps Hospital Register #55, Record Group 94, National Archives (from Nelson3).
Birth
c. 1841
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 1, p. 167; Vol. 2, p. 250 [AotW citation 14738]
2 Sawyer, Franklin, and George A. Groot, editor, A Military History of the 8th Regiment Ohio Vol. Inf'y, Cleveland: Fairbanks & Co., Printers, 1881, pp. 82, 217, 251 [AotW citation 30332]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 302 [AotW citation 30333]