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(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
Birth
c. 1836
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]