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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Dieter Schlimmermyer

(c. 1836 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: German (SC) Artillery

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted and mustered as 3rd Sergeant of Company A, Artillery Battalion, Hampton Legion on 22 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was with the battery in Maryland and commanded the section of Blakely rifles in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. His battalion commander Major Frobel commended him in his after-action Report:

... and Sergeant Schlemmermeyer deserve particular notice for [his] gallant conduct during the battle.

The rest of the War

He appears on a clothing receipt for the 4th Quarter of 1863 with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Diedr Schlemmermeyer. His role at Sharpsburg from Artillery.2

Birth

c. 1836

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 30511]

2 Rosebrock, James A., Artillery of Antietam: the Union and Confederate Batteries at the Battle of Antietam, Sharpburg: The Press of the Antietam Institute, 2023, pp. 250-251 [AotW citation 30512]

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