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Federal (USV)

Private

Christian Bidel

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted in Tremont, PA on 8 October 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry at Pottsville the same date.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and died of wounds, probably at a field hospital in Burkittsville, the next day.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2

Birth

c. 1840

Death

09/15/1862; Burkittsville, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15376]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 30984]

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