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Federal (USV)

Private

Philip Tufenbach

(c. 1829 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted and mustered in New York City on 19 March 1862 for 3 years service as a Private in Company A, 7th New York Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the head by a six-pounder cannon ball in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, then age 33.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Camden Street US Army General Hospital in Baltimore, MD but deserted from the hospital on 4 December 1862, from which "it may be inferred that [his] disabilities were not of a serious nature.".

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 also as Phillip Tiefenbach. Wound details and the quote above from the MSHWR,2 which has him as P. Diffenbach.

Birth

c. 1829

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 1899, Ser. No. 18, p. 269 [AotW citation 7639]

2 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 99 [AotW citation 31177]

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