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Federal (USV)

Private

Samuel Bechtel

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

He was in Company D, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by gunshot to the chest in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a hospital in Frederick, MD.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson1.

Notes

1   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. 127  [AotW citation 16346]