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Federal (USV)

Private

Edward Geisel

(? - 1862)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

From Milwaukee, he enlisted as a Private in Company C, 5th Wisconsin Infantry on 10 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He died of disease in a hospital in Hagerstown, MD on 7 December 1862.

After the War

He was originally buried in Hagerstown but was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the Roster.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

12/07/1862; Hagerstown, 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 3539]

2 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886 [AotW citation 25200]

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