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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry Augustus Truluck Meyer

(1845 - 1862)

Home State: Michigan

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 17th Michigan Infantry

Before Antietam

From Lansing, MI, giving his age as 18, he enlisted on 15 August 1862 in Lansing and mustered as Private, Company F, 17th Michigan Infantry on 26 August.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and was buried on the battlefield.

References & notes

His service from the Record of Service,1 which has him as Henry A. T. Meyer or Myer. His memorial is on Findagrave; he may be in Antietam National Cemetery, but is not among the named burials there. His birth information and full name from an announcement in the Lansing State Republican of 8 October 1862.

Birth

02/04/1845; Albany, NY

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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. 72 [AotW citation 20208]

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