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Federal (USV)

Private

John Pfeifer

(? - 1864)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From East Windsor, he enlisted as a Private in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 5 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864. He was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA, and was paroled on 10 December, but he died on 27 December 1864 at Camp Parole, Annapolis, MD.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

12/27/1864; Annapolis, MD; burial in Annapolis National Cemetery, Annapolis, MD

Notes

1 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pp. 656 - 663 [AotW citation 5568]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pg. 632 [AotW citation 27195]

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