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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Ferdinand Turnt

(c. 1833 - 1892)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 103rd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 28, he mustered as Sergeant, Company H, 103rd New York Infantry in New York City on 10 October 1861.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from the NY Adjutant General.1 It is likely that the (other) Ferdinand Turnt, age 60, who was Chaplain of the 103rd in 1863, was his father and Captain Frederick Turnt, also of Company H, was his brother.

Birth

c. 1833

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

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 1902, Ser. No. 33, pg. 858  [AotW citation 19787]