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Federal (USV)

Private

Samuel Burkhart

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 88th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He was in Company B, 88th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was again wounded, in action on 25 June 1864, and was discharged on a Surgeon's Certificate of 3 November 1864.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson1, with service from Bates.

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. 149  [AotW citation 16998]