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Federal (USV)

Private

Johann Kast

"John"

(c. 1830 - ?)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 20th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

He was a 31 year old tailor in Boston when he enlisted there on 22 May 1861, and he mustered as a Private in Company B, 20th Massachusetts Infantry on 26 July at Camp Massasoit in Readville, MA.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was a prisoner in Richmond, VA by 28 September and paroled at Aikens' Landing, VA on 6 October. He was sent to the parole camp at Annapolis, MD on 13 October and on the roll there to the end of the month. He may have been sent to Alexandria, VA in November, but afterward was listed as a deserter with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from the Massachusetts Adjutant General1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1830; Ettlingnen, Baden, GERMANY

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35 [AotW citation 34427]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 34428]

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