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Federal (USV)

Private

John Salts

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

From Vigo County, IN, he enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company F, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 15 December 1863 and transferred to Company B, 20th Indiana Infantry on 6 June 1864. He mustered out with them at Louisville, KY on 12 July 1865.

References & notes

His service basics from the Adjutant General,1 alternately as John Soltz. Wound detail from Nelson.2 He's also seen as John M Saltz.

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, pp. 283, 435 [AotW citation 33574]

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. 375 [AotW citation 33575]

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