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Federal (USV)

Private

James Heller

(c. 1817 - 1862)

Home State: Michigan

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 17th Michigan Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 45, from Coldwater, MI, he enlisted on 7 July 1862, in Coldwater, and mustered as Wagoner, Company H, 17th Michigan Infantry on 19 August.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and died there the next day.

References & notes

His service from Record of Service.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1817

Death

09/15/1862; Fox's Gap, MD; burial in Fremont Cemetery, Fremont, IN

Notes

1 State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915, Vol. 17, pg. 46 [AotW citation 20185]

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