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I. Ostheimer
(c. 1831 - 1864)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 66th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Enlisted at age 30 in New York City on 14 October 1861, in Company F, 66th New York Infantry.
On the Campaign
Wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
Killed in action on 10 May 1864 at Spotsylvania, VA.
References & notes
Basic information from State of New York1, who list him as Osthimeir. The picture here from a very faded photograph in the collection of the New York Military Museum available online through the New York Heritage portal.
Birth
c. 1831
Death
05/10/1864; Spotsylvania, VA
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, Issue 27 (for 1901), pg. 864 [AotW citation 7682]