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Federal (USV)

Private

John Remeike

(c. 1837 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 51st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 24, he enlisted on 26 August 1861 in New York City and mustered as a Private in Company K, 51st New York Infantry on 12 September.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot in the leg in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 20 September and sent to Washington, C on 25 September 1862. He was discharged on 17 April 1863 from the Insane Hospital, place not given.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2

Birth

c. 1837

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 1900, Ser. No. 25, p. 185 [AotW citation 30389]

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 #421 [AotW citation 30390]

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