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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry Logas

(c. 1835 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st United States Sharpshooters

Before Antietam

Age 26, he enlisted in New York City as a Private in Company A, First US Sharpshooters on 19 August 1861. He was appointed Corporal by November 1861 but was reduced again to Private at his own request on 1 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in a skirmish at Boteler's Ford on the Potomac near Shepherdstown, VA on 19 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Stevens1 and a Muster Roll extract from the NY State Archives, online via fold3, which also has him as Henry Loges.

Birth

c. 1835 in GERMANY

Death

09/19/1862; near Shepherdstown, VA

Notes

1 Stevens, Charles Augustus, Berdan's United States Sharpshooters in the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865, St. Paul (MN): The Price-McGill Company, 1892, pg. 210 [AotW citation 26145]

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