(c. 1841 - 1862)
Home State: Michigan
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Michigan Infantry
Before Antietam
A baker from Portage Lake. Enlisted in Company F, Seventh Infantry, Aug. 7, 1861, at Portage Lake, for 3 years, age 20.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died 9 November 1862 at Smoketown, MD from wounds received at Antietam.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1841 in GERMANY
Death
11/09/1862; Smoketown, 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 3842]
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. 69 [AotW citation 12072]