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Federal (USV)

Private

Jacob Leier

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 20th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20, he enlisted on 3 May 1861 at New York City to serve 2 years and mustered as a Private in Company B, 20th New York Infantry on 6 May.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

His arm was amputated and he was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp A in Frederick, MD on 5 October. He was discharged for disability from the hospital on 11 (or 13) December 1862.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York1 and his Muster Roll Abstract, online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as Jacob Law.

Birth

c. 1841 in GERMANY

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 20, pp. 1 - 174 [AotW citation 5303]

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 #1.295 [AotW citation 32233]

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