(c. 1831 - 1862)
Home State: Ohio
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 30th Ohio Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 30, he enlisted as Private in Company A, 30th Ohio Infantry on 15 August 1861. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 February 1862.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
His service from the Roster.1
His wife Catharine died about 1872 and his 3 children - Hattie J., age 14, Charles T., 12, and Adolph, Jr., 11, were admitted to the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphan's Home in Xenia.
Birth
c. 1831
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 3, pg. 397 [AotW citation 22202]