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(c. 1817 - 1862)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He emigrated from Germany to New York City with his wife and children on 6 Jun 1853. In May 1861 at age 44, then a mason in Webster, MA, he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 15th Massachusetts Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds on 30 September 1862 in the "Sedgewick" hospital at "Keitsville" (Keedysville), MD.
References & notes
Service information from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,1 which has his name as Godfred Reidman. Additional details from Susan Harnwell's 15th Massachusetts genealogy, also as as Gottfried Redemann (probably his birth name). His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Johanah Link (1808-1898) in 1840 in Hannover and they had 3 children.
Birth
c. 1817; Hannover, GERMANY
Death
09/30/1862; Keedysville, MD; burial in Calvary Cemetery, Dudley, MA
1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pp. 194 - 195 [AotW citation 5932]