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(c. 1834 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 20th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 27, he enlisted in Company B, 20th New York Infantry on 3 May 1861 in New York City. He was promoted to Corporal on 11 July 1861.
On the Campaign
He was in Maryland with his Company but died of disease at a hospital in Hagerstown, MD on 30 October 1862.
After the War
He was initially buried in a plot near the Alms House in Hagerstown but may have been reinterred elsewhere at a later date.
References & notes
Basic information from State of New York1, which notes his last name also found as Kolsch and Kelsh. Death details from an article in the Hagerstown Herald of Freedom & Torch Light of 12 November 1862.
Birth
c. 1834
Death
10/30/1862; Hagerstown, MD
1 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. 20, pg. 73 [AotW citation 17645]