(1826 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 20th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 26 and living in Brooklyn, he enlisted as Private, Company C, 20th New York Infantry on 3 May 1861. He was promoted to Corporal on 30 November 1861.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.
The rest of the War
His arm was amputated, and he died of his wounds on 15 October 1862 in a Baltimore hospital.
References & notes
Birth
1826 in GERMANY
Death
10/15/1862; Baltimore, MD; burial in Greenwood 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 5351]