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Federal (USA)

Private

Franz Hund

(c. 1816 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd and 10th United States Infantry

Before Antietam

A 41 year old scalemaker, he enlisted at Buffalo, NY in Company B, 2nd United States Infantry on 6 December 1861.

On the Campaign

He was bruised by a piece of "grapeshot" (canister round?) to his left leg, probably in action near the Middle Bridge at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Locust Spring hospital on the Geeting Farm near Keedysville, MD, then at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD from 27 September to 2 January 1863. He was discharged for disability on 6 January 1863. He had further service in the 95th Company, 2nd Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps.

References & notes

His service from the Register1 and the index to his Compiled Service Records via fold3. His wound and hospital information from the Patient List2 and Nelson3, both as Francis Hunt.

Birth

c. 1816; Baden, GERMANY

Notes

1 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 142, pg. 350 [AotW citation 26433]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #528 [AotW citation 26434]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 258 [AotW citation 26435]

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