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Federal (USV)

Private

Joseph Beckrich

(c. 1837 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 21st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

A 24 year old coppersmith, he enlisted on 97 May 1861 in Buffalo, NY to serve two years, and mustered in on 20 May as a Private in Company G, 21st New York Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson,1 as Joseph Beckerich. His service from the Adjutant General2 and his New York Muster Roll Extract, online from fold3, also as James Beckerich and James Beckeridge.

He's probably the Joseph Beckrich (1835-1921) buried in Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery in Hamburg, NY.

Birth

c. 1837 in FRANCE

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. 128 [AotW citation 16353]

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