Samuel Rodman Zebley

Not quite 21 years old, from a farm family of Brandywine Hundred, DE, he enlisted on 5 August 1862 in Media, PA and mustered as Private, Company H, 124th Pennsylvania Infantry on 9 August in Harrisburg.

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

In the Blue Hen's Chicken and Commonwealth (Wilmington, DE) of 1 October 1862:

Interred. - The body of Samuel R. Zebley, who was mentioned in our last issue as being killed at the battle of Antietam, was brought home by the father and a few personal friends of the deceased, and interred on Sunday last. Mr. Zebley was a member of Captain Yarnall's company Pennsylvania Volunteers.

Service information from Bates1 and the Register.2 Personal details from the 1860 US Census. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

09/13/1841; Wilmington, DE

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Chester Bethel Cemetery, Wilmington, DE