(1835 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 20th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
A 25 year old resident of New York City, he enrolled on 3 May 1861 in the 20th New York Infantry, and mustered in as 2nd Lieutenant, Company G on 6 May. He was promoted to First Lieutenant of Company D on 1 May 1862.
On the Campaign
He was killed by a gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
Service information from the State of New York1. Further details from Jeffrey I. Richman's bio sketch online from Green-wood Cemetery.
Birth
1835; Bad Durkheim, Bavaria, GERMANY
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Green-wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
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 5324]