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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles Becker

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, he enlisted in New York City, and mustered in as a Private in Company G, 42nd New York Infantry on 27 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was probably wounded in the finger in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 21 October 1862 at Harpers Ferry, VA. On 16 January 1864 he enlisted in New York City and mustered as a Private in Company C, 6th New York Heavy Artillery and he mustered out with his Company on 24 August 1865 in Washington, DC.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson.1 His service from the State of New York.2

Birth

c. 1842

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 16347]

2 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 23, p. 897; 1896/V.3, p. 715 [AotW citation 30105]

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