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Federal (USV)

Private

Louis Fischer

(c. 1826 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 35, he enlisted on 22 April 1861 in New York City and mustered as Private, Company D, 4th New York Infantry on 2 May.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Service from the Adjutant General.1 His burial site from Stotelmyer1 via the Historical Data Systems database.

Birth

c. 1826

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, 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 1898, Ser. No. 17, pg. 674  [AotW citation 20344]

2   Stotelmyer, Steven R., The Bivouacs of the Dead: The story of those who died at Antietam and South Mountain, Baltimore: Toomey Press, 1992  [AotW citation 20345]