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(1835 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 20th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
He was a 25 year old resident of Manhattan and he enrolled there on 3 May 1861 and mustered as 2nd Lieutenant of Company E, 20th New York Infantry on 6 May.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of his wounds the following day at the field hospital on the Susan Hoffman farm in Sharpsburg. He was posthumously promoted to First Lieutenant on 3 October to date from 10 July 1862, and was buried at Greenwood on 5 October 1862.
References & notes
Basic information from State of New York,1, which has his name as Charles or Carl Volker, Volher, and Voelker. Hospital detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
1835 in GERMANY
Death
09/18/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 5354]