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(1837 - 1862)
Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 3rd Wisconsin Infantry
Before Antietam
From Neenah (or Menasha), he enlisted in Company G, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry on 1 May 1861. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 27 June 1861 and First Lieutenant on 11 November 1861.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded, his leg "shattered", in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds on 10 November 1862.
References & notes
Basic information from Bryant1, which lists him as Joseph P. Sheppard. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Family genealogists have his original first name as Angelo. GAR Post 44, Menasha, WI was named for him.
Birth
07/28/1837; Westfield, MA
Death
11/10/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Pine Hill Cemetery, Westfield, MA
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. 429 - 431 [AotW citation 15283]