Joseph Gloskoski

Home State: New York
Command Billet: Signal Officer
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: Army of the Potomac

see his Battle Report

Before the Antietam Campaign:
Possibly from Germany, he had been 1st Lieutenant, Company K, 29th New York Infantry, but detached and joined the group of officers serving as the Signal Detachment, Army of the Potomac in March 1862, and served with them on the Peninsula. He was mentioned for bravery at Gaines Mill.1

The remainder of the War:
He was at Fredericksburg, and, by Gettysburg in July 1863, he was Captain, and attached to the Cavalry Corps of the Army. He was General Kilpatrick's Signal Officer on the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid on Richmond in March 1864. He was offered a Lieutenant's commission (Regular Army) in the Signal Corps, but declined it and resigned on 26 April 1864.1

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 189]

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