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Federal (USV)

Private

John Koch

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 21st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

A 20 year old shoe maker, he enlisted on 1 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 in the left arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His arm was amputated and he was discharged for disability at the Grace Church Hospital in Alexandria, VA on 31 October 1862.

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

Birth

c. 1841 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. 243  [AotW citation 28234]

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 28235]