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Federal (USV)

Private

James H. Gerrel

(? - 1863)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

From Putnam County, IN, he enlisted and mustered on 2 September 1862 as a Private in Company D, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the hip in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was mortally wounded in the right leg at Chancellorsville on 3 May 1863 and his leg was amputated, but he died on 20 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General.1 Wound detail from Nelson.2

Death

05/20/1863

Notes

1 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, p. 280 [AotW citation 33506]

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. 221 [AotW citation 33507]

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