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Federal (USV)

Private

Christian Stoltz

(1841 - 1922)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted and mustered into service as a Private in Company C, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 4 January 1862 in Philadelphia.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot in Maryland in September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 13 September, to GH#5 on 18 September with "incipient amaurosis" (blindness), and transferred to Philadelphia on 20 September 1862. He was listed as "not accounted for" on his Company's muster-out roll.

References & notes

His service from the Card File 1 and Bates.2 Wound and hospital information from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

01/01/1841; Philadelphia, PA

Death

02/01/1922; Philadelphia, PA; burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 23455]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23456]

3 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 #29, 2.973 [AotW citation 23457]

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