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Federal (USV)

Private

John A. Reuchler

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 77th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, he enlisted at Bleeker for three years and mustered as Private, Company F, 77th New York Infantry on 1 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

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

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 as John A. Rerchler. His service from the Adjutant General.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave, as John A. Renchler.

Birth

c. 1842

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 4076]

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 1901, Ser. No. 29, pg. 576 [AotW citation 22499]

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