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Federal (USV)

Private

Christian Gintz

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 20th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 22, he enlisted on 17 July 1861 in New York City as Private, Company H, 20th New York Infantry.

On the Campaign

He died of disease in the Seminary Hospital in Hagerstown, MD on 19 November 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 which has his name as Gents. Service details from the Adjutant General.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1839

Death

11/19/1862; 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 3542]

2 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1899, Ser. No. 20, pg. 44 [AotW citation 25204]

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