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Federal (USV)

Private

Adam Zeigler

(c. 1844 - 1864)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

From Waupun, a hatter, he enlisted on 18 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at hospitals in Frederick, MD and Philadelphia, PA, and was listed as a deserter from Philadelphia on 9 January 1863.

He had, however, enlisted in Philadelphia on Christmas Day 1862 as a Private in Company M of the First United States Cavalry for the balance of his term of enlistment. He reenlisted at Mitchell's Station, VA on 12 February 1864, was promoted to Corporal, and was killed in action in a skirmish with Confederate cavalry at Shepherdstown, WV on 25 August 1864.

References & notes

His service basics from Bryant.1 Wound and hospital details from Nelson2 and a casualty list in a letter Lt. Hinkley wrote Oscar Gee on 21 September 1862. US Army details from the Registers.3 His name also seen as Adam Ziegler.

Birth

c. 1844; Baden, GERMANY

Death

08/25/1864; Shepherdstown, WV

Notes

1 Bryant, Edwin Eustace, History of the Third Regiment of Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865, Madison: Arthur H Clark Co. for the Veteran Association of the Regiment, 1891, pp. 419 - 421 [AotW citation 15230]

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, p. 449 [AotW citation 34322]

3 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 57, p. 339; Vol. 149, p. 940 [AotW citation 34323]

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