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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Lewis W. Shepard

(c. 1837 - 1863)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 104th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 24, from Nunda, he enlisted in Geneseo and mustered as 5th Sergeant, Company A, 104th New York Infantry on 30 September 1861. He was appointed First Sergeant on 12 September 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 10 January 1863, place not given.

References & notes

Service information from the State of New York.1

Birth

c. 1837

Death

01/10/1863

Notes

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, For the Year 1902, Ser. No. 33, pg. 1028  [AotW citation 7132]