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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry Heissermann

(1842 - 1926)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted in Company A, 8th Ohio Infantry at age 19 on 28 May 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was wounded again, in action at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862. He was discharged 4 April 1863 on a Surgeon's Certificate of disability.

After the War

He was listed as living in Tiffin, OH at the time of the Regimental Reunion at Gettysburg in September 1887.

References & notes

Basic information from Sawyer1. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

06/02/1842

Death

06/04/1926; burial in Greenlawn Cemetery, Tiffin, OH

Notes

1 Sawyer, Franklin, and George A. Groot, editor, A Military History of the 8th Regiment Ohio Vol. Inf'y, Cleveland: Fairbanks & Co., Printers, 1881, pp. 192 - 198 [AotW citation 14769]

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