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Federal (USV)

Private

John Schlasser

(c. 1836 - 1862)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 11th Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 25, he enlisted as a Private in Company K, 11th Ohio Infantry on 5 August 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

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

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 which has him as John Schlosser and says he was mortally wounded and died on South Mountain. His service from the Official Roster.2

Birth

c. 1836

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 4134]

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 [AotW citation 24711]

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