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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry Ott

(c. 1825 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 37 year old tobacconist in Northampton County, he enlisted and mustered as Private, Company K, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 29 March 1862 in Philadelphia.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He transferred to Company F, 11th Pennsylvania Infantry on 26 November 1864, served in the Pioneer Corps, and was discharged on 28 March 1865.

References & notes

His service from the Card File 1 and Bates.2 Wound information from Nelson.3

Birth

c. 1825

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 23577]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23578]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 343 [AotW citation 23579]

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