Peter A Taylor

Home State: New York
Command Billet: Acting Signal Officer
Branch of Service: Signals
Unit: 49th New York Infantry

see his Battle Report

Before the Antietam Campaign:
One of the 60 Canadians in the 49th New York Infantry, he had enrolled in the Regiment as 1st Lieutenant, Company H, in September 1861. He was detached for signal duty in March 1862, and was with General Pope, Army of Virginia in August 1862, and was at Cedar Mountain. 1

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was part of the Army of the Potomac Signal Detachment on the Maryland Campaign.

The remainder of the War:
He was appointed Captain, US Signal Corps, in August 1864 (to date from May 1863). He was attached to the 11th Corps and manned a signal station on Little Round Top at Gettysburg before it was occupied by Federal Infantry, and was assigned to General Hancock in Autumn 1864. In January 1865 he was selected Chief Signal Officer of the Department of Tennessee, and mustered out of service on 4 September 1865. He was cited by brevet to Major by War's end.1

Birth State: CANADA

Notes

1 Brown, J. Willard, The Signal Corps, U.S.A. in the War of the Rebellion, Boston: U.S. Veteran Signal Corps Association, 1896, roster of the Corps [AotW citation 184]

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