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Federal (USV)

Corporal

August Bruhlmeier

(c. 1842 - 1887)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 20th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age, 19, he enlisted on 3 May 1861 in New York City for 2 years and mustered in as a Private in Company B, 20th New York Infantry on 6 May. He was promoted to Corporal on 24 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded and captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862:

A portion of the frontal (skull) bone, left side, had been fractured and partly torn away, leaving the brain exposed for a space of two inches by one inch.

The rest of the War

He was paroled, date not given, and admitted to US Army Hospital #1 in Annapolis, MD on 15 November. He was discharged for disability there on 16 March 1863 "being unable to undergo either mental or physical exertion."

References & notes

His service from the State of New York.1 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR,2 as August Buhlmeier.

Birth

c. 1842 in GERMANY

Death

09/24/1887

Notes

1 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 1899, Ser. No. 20, p. 19 [AotW citation 5243]

2 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 163 [AotW citation 31240]

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