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Federal (USV)

Private

Rudolphus Beck

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: West Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th West Virginia Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, he enlisted as Private, Company G, 7th West Virginia Infantry on 18 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson1. His service from the Adjutant General.2.

Birth

c. 1842

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 16349]

2 State of West Virginia, Adjutant General's Office, and Francis P. Peirpoint, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of West Virginia for the Year ending December 31, 1864, Wheeling: John McDermot, Public Printer, 1865, pg. 161 [AotW citation 25147]

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