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(1838 - 1913)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 103rd New York Infantry
Before Antietam
He came to America from Frauenstein (now Weisbaden), Germany in 1861 and he enlisted in New York City for three years and mustered as Private in Company H, 103rd New York Infantry on 19 February 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the left thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at US Army hospitals in Frederick, MD from December 1862 to 21 April 1863, when he was sent to Baltimore. He transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps 27 July 1863.
References & notes
Birth
04/15/1838 in GERMANY
Death
12/09/1913; New Rochelle, NY; burial in Beechwoods Cemetery, New Rochelle, NY
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. 786 [AotW citation 19816]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #1.531 [AotW citation 19817]