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Federal (USV)

Private

Balsar Snyder

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 21st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

A 19 year old tailor, he enlisted on 4 May 1861 in Buffalo, NY to serve two years, and mustered in on 20 May as a Private in Company H, 21st New York Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 28 September 1862 and sent on to Washington, DC the next day. He mustered out with his Company on 18 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General1 and his New York Muster Roll Extract, online from fold3, with Antietam wound detail from the Chronicles.2 Hospital detail from the Patient List,3 as P. Snyder.

Birth

c. 1842 in GERMANY

Notes

1   State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1899, Ser. No. 20, pg. 288  [AotW citation 28230]

2   Mills, John Harrison, and 21st Regiment Veteran Association of Buffalo, Chronicles of the Twenty-first Regiment New York State Volunteers, Buffalo: 21st Reg't. Veteran Association of Buffalo, 1887, pg. 294  [AotW citation 28231]

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 #473  [AotW citation 28253]