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(1841 - 1862)
Home State: Michigan
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Michigan Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 20, from Kalamazoo, he enlisted on 10 August 1861 at Galesburg as a Private in Company I, 7th Michigan Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds in Frederick, MD on 2 December 1862 and was originally buried there.
After the War
He was reinterred in the new National Cemetery in about 1867.
References & notes
Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the Record,2 which says he was discharged in January 1863. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850. His gravesite is on Findagrave (as is a cenotaph in Saranac Cemetery, Saranac, MI, as Daniel L. Lewis).
His brother Solomon was also wounded at Antietam, but survived the war.
Birth
02/18/1841 in OH
Death
12/02/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3790]
2 State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915, Vol. 7, pg. 65 [AotW citation 25253]