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Federal (USV)

Private

Herman Saltler

(? - 1862)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 28th Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted on 20 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 28th Ohio Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of his wounds on 16 October 1862 at the Locust Spring/Big Spring field hospital on the Geeting farm near Keedysville, MD.

References & notes

His service from the Roster. 1 Hospital detail from Nelson,2 as Herman Salter. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

10/16/1862; Keedysville, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 3, pp. 349, 741 [AotW citation 35056]

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 35057]

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