A.H. Johnson

Federal (USV)

Private

Abel H. Johnson

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

From Harmony, he enlisted in Company I, 6th Wisconsin Infantry on 1 June 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He transferred to the 71st Company, 2nd Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps on 5 November 1863.

References & notes

His service from the State of Wisconsin1 and the Index to his Compiled Service Records,2 (VRC) online from fold3. His picture from a photograph in the Scott D. Hann Collection, published in Military Images (September/October 2002).

Notes

1 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, pp. 528 - 530 [AotW citation 10429]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 30498]

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