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Federal (USV)

Private

Simon Bendin

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 125th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He mustered as Private in Company K, 125th Pennsylvania Infantry on 14 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the shoulder in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He mustered out with his Company on 18 May 1863.

References & notes

Basic information from Bates1. Casualty details from Nelson2, who lists him as Simon Bender, Company I.

Notes

1   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. IV, pp. 125 - 126  [AotW citation 1393]

2   Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 129  [AotW citation 16331]