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(c. 1833 - 1910)
Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Wisconsin Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 28, he enlisted at Lodi, WI on 12 June 1861 and mustered as 2nd Corporal of Company A, 7th Wisconsin Infantry on 16 August. He was reduced to Private on 18 September but reinstated Corporal on the 29th. He was appointed First Corporal on 18 February 1862, promoted to 5th Sergeant on 3 July and to 4th Sergeant on 29 August.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his right thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability from a US Army General Hospital in Baltimore, MD and was awarded a pension for 1/2 disability in December 1862. He rejoined his regiment as a Private in June 1863 and was again wounded, at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863, and by a gunshot to his left forearm, his ulna bone broken, in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864. Parts of the bone were removed on 3 June and he was discharged on disability on 6 May 1865, his "fingers contracted and useless."
After the War
He was an unmarried 68 year old farmer in Los Angeles County when he was admitted to the Soldier's Home at Sawtelle near Los Angeles, CA on 2 August 1899. He died there of hemiplegia - paralysis on one side of his body - on 29 August 1910.
References & notes
His service from the State of Wisconsin1 and his Compiled Service Records.2 Wilderness wound details from the MSHWR.3 Personal details from the Registers,4 which have his birth in Wisconsin. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Kathy Steckelberg for the poke to look into Sergeant Bachman and for sharing her research in the CSRs and pension files.
Birth
c. 1833; Centre County, PA
Death
08/29/1910; Los Angeles, CA; burial in Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
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. 540 - 543 [AotW citation 10524]
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 31208]
3 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 2, p. 939 [AotW citation 31210]
4 US Department of Veterans Affairs, Registers of the United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938, Washington, DC: US National Archives and Records Administration, 1938 [AotW citation 31209]