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Federal (USV)

Private

Jacob Reichman

(c. 1827 - 1862)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 34, he enlisted as Private, Company H, 12th Ohio Infantry on 24 April 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds at the Locust Spring hospital on the Geeting Farm near Keedysville, MD on 19 September 1862.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 which has him as Jacob Reischman. His service from the Roster.2 Hospital detail from Nelson.3His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1827

Death

09/19/1862; Keedysville, 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 4073]

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. 2, pg. 376 [AotW citation 25234]

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, pg. 360 [AotW citation 25235]

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