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Federal (USV)

Private

George Gentholf

(c. 1831 - 1862)

Home State: Delaware

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Delaware Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted in Company F, 2nd Delaware Infantry at age 30 on 15 August 1861 in Wilmington.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds and was buried at Smoketown, MD; reinterred in the National Cemetery before or during 1867.

References & notes

Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History1, which lists him as Gantholtz Gathiel. Details from the State of Delaware2, which says he died of his Antietam wounds on 19 September 1862 in Washington, DC (which seems unlikely).

Birth

c. 1831

Death

10/21/1862; Smoketown, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869  [AotW citation 3536]

2   State of Delaware, Adjutant General's Office, Civil War Military records for Delaware Units, Published 1861-, first accessed 31 January 2015, <http://archives.delaware.gov/CivilWar/volumes/>  [AotW citation 30837]