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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Henry Bruns

(c. 1840 - 1863)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 31st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21 years, he enlisted 9 August 1861 at New York City to serve two years and mustered in as Private, Company E, 31st New York Infantry on 14 August. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Stone House field hospital on the Samuel Poffenberger farm at Sharpsburg. He was wounded again, mortally, near Fredericksburg, VA on 3 May 1863, and died of wounds at Douglas Hospital in Washington, DC on 11 July 1863.

References & notes

Casualty and hospital information from Nelson,1 as Henry Brown, with service details from the Adjutant General.2

Birth

c. 1840

Death

07/11/1863; Washington, DC

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. 144 [AotW citation 16913]

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 1899, Ser. No. 21, p.735 [AotW citation 30058]

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