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(1826 - 1907)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 42nd New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 34, he enlisted on 6 June 1861 in New York City, and mustered in as a Private in Company F, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the flesh of his calf in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated in the field hospital on the Susan Hoffman farm at Sharpsburg and discharged for disability at the Convalescent Camp, Alexandria, VA on 5 February 1863.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a carpenter in Newark, NJ, and lived there to at least 1890.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding at Antietam. Wound and hospital details from Nelson,2 as Ambrose Ward. His wound also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870 (as Werth) & 1880 (as Ward), and the US Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War (1890).
He was probably born Ambros Warth.
He married Baden-born Susanna Schilling Benedom (1830-) in Newark in December 1859 and they had 3 daughters.
Birth
11/13/1826; Baden, GERMANY
Death
07/22/1907; in NJ
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 1900, Ser. No. 23, p. 1100 [AotW citation 30182]
2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 427 [AotW citation 30183]