J. Wagner

Federal (USV)

Quartermaster Sergeant

Jacob Wagner

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Antietam

A printer from Pottsville, PA, he enrolled and mustered on 19 September 1861 in Harrisburg as a Private in Company H, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry. He was promoted to Quartermaster Sergeant of the regiment on 4 October 1861.

On the Campaign

He was with his regiment at Antietam.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to First Lieutenant and Quartermaster on 21 December 1862 and Major of the Regiment 21 June 1865.

References & notes

His basic service and photograph from Bosbyshell,1 with details from the Card File.2

Notes

1 Bosbyshell, Oliver Christian, The 48th in the War: being a Narrative of the Campaigns of the 48th Regiment, Infantry, Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, during the War of the Rebellion, Philadelphia: Avil Print. Co., 1895, pp. 73 - 85 [AotW citation 5395]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 31833]

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