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(c. 1841 - ?)
Home State: Ohio
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Ohio Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted in Company H, 8th Ohio Infantry at age 20 on 6 June 1861. Wounded at Winchester (May 1862). He was appointed Corporal, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.
After the War
He was listed (as G.A. Vanasdell) as living in Three Rivers, MI at the time of the Regimental Reunion at Gettysburg in September 1887.
References & notes
Basic information from Sawyer1. Details from the State Roster, which lists him as Garrette A. Vanorsdall.
Birth
c. 1841
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. 226 - 230 [AotW citation 14850]