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(c. 1835 - 1862)
Home State: Michigan
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 61st New York Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 24 year old farm worker on the Brackley Shaw place at Dover, Lenawee County, MI. He enlisted on 25 September 1861 in Adrian, MI for three years, and he mustered as a Sergeant in Company K, 61st NY Infantry on 9 November. He was appointed First Sergeant on 9 December 1861.
On the Campaign
He was bruised in the neck by a piece of shell in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He transferred to Company G on 1 November and was wounded in action at Fredericksburg, VA in December 1862. He died of wounds on 24 December 1862 near Falmouth, VA.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York,1 with details from his Muster Roll Extracts, online from fold3. The pointer to his wound at Antietam was a casualty list in an undated news clipping online from the NY State Military Museum. Antietam wound detail from Nelson.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.
Birth
c. 1835; Bohemia, AUSTRIA
Death
12/24/1862; Falmouth, VA
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. 26, p. 947 [AotW citation 30958]
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. 249 [AotW citation 30959]