b. 25/02/1843 Oldtown, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. d. 15/03/1917 Delaware, Ohio.
DATE OF MOH ACTION: 22/05/1863 Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Swegheimer was born as John Swegheimer in the Kingdom of Württemberg (modern day Baden-Württemberg, Germany) on 25 February 1843. He married Anna Basiger and fathered 9 children, of which one lived until 1979.
Swegheimer enlisted in the Army as a private at the age of 19 at Paducah, Kentucky on 1 March 1862. He was assigned to Company I of the 54th Ohio Infantry. On 22 May 1863, during the Siege of Vicksburg, he participated in a volunteer storming charge, an action that earned him the Medal of Honor. Swegheimer was mustered out of service on 27 March 1865 at Goldsboro, North Carolina.
MOH CITATION:
Gallantry in the charge of the “volunteer storming party.”
BURIAL LOCATION: OAK GROVE CEMETERY, DELAWARE, OHIO. (BURIED AS JACOB SWICKHEIMER)
WALNUT SECTION, LOT 12.
LOCATION OF MEDAL: BELIEVED TO BE FAMILY.