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Federal (USA)

Private

Jacob Harth

(c. 1840 - 1881)

Home State: Missouri

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd and 10th United States Infantry

Before Antietam

A 21 year old farmer, he enlisted at St. Louis, MO in Company A, 2nd United States Infantry on 21 May 1860.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to both thighs, probably in action near the Middle Bridge at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD from 27 September to 2 December 1862, then sent on to the convalescent camp at Alexandria, VA. By then a Corporal, he was discharged for disability at the Patterson Park Hospital in Baltimore on 23 March 1863.

After the War

In 1870 he operated a liquor store in Cincinnati, OH.

References & notes

His service from the Register.1 His wound and hospital information from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Carolina Stifel (1842-1904) and they had two children, Emma and Edward.

Birth

c. 1840; Hesse Darmstadt, GERMANY

Death

1881; burial in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, OH

Notes

1 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 142, pg. 23 [AotW citation 26431]

2 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 #531 [AotW citation 26432]

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