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Federal (USV)

Private

Friedrich Kieser

(c. 1837 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 20th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 24 years, he enlisted on 3 May 1861 in New York City as a Private, Company C, 20th New York Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds, date not given. He was reinterred from his original burial on the battlefield to the National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Service information from the State of New York.1, which says he mustered out in 1863. Burial information from the Cemetery History,2 as Frederick Kieser.

Birth

c. 1837

Death

Date not known; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

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, Issue 20, pp. 1 - 174 [AotW citation 5291]

2 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3727]

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