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Federal (USV)

Private

Samuel Waglon

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 102nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, he enlisted at Brooklyn and mustered as Private, Company G, 102nd New York Infantry on 4 October 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the US Army hospital in the Jail Street School (part of USA General Hospital #2) in Frederick, MD on 27 September but died of wounds on 28 October 1862.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 as Samuel Woglan. Service from the Adjutant General.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as Samuel Wogler. His name also seen as Samuel Woglom. His gravesite is on Findagrave as Sam'l Woglen.

Birth

c. 1838

Death

10/28/1862; Frederick, 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 4377]

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 1902, Ser. No. 33, pg. 693 [AotW citation 22133]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #402 [AotW citation 22134]

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