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Federal (USV)

Private

John W. Saur

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 52nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He was 21 when he mustered into Company B, 52nd NY Infantry on 1 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from State of New York1. Thanks to Devan Sommerville for scrubbing through the Report and extracting and transcribing the roster data for AotW.

His last name also recorded as Sauer.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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, Issue 25 (for 1900)  [AotW citation 7752]