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Federal (USV)

Private

John J. Kohler

(c. 1830 - 1862)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 66th Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 31, he enlisted as Private, Company I, 66th Ohio Infantry on 9 December 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Smoketown hospital, but died there of wounds on 14 October 1862.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the Roster.2 Wound and hospital details from Nelson.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1830

Death

10/14/1862; 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 3749]

2 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. 5, pg. 556 [AotW citation 25247]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pp. 167, 250 [AotW citation 25248]

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