Jacob H Beattes

(1821 - ?)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Command Billet: Company Officer
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 95th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
A Philadelphia carriage trimmer before the War, he enlisted at age 40 in the 3-month 19th Infantry in April 1861, as Captain of Company F. He mustered out in August.1 He then mustered into Company D of the 95th, again as Captain on 19 September 1861. He was wounded in action at West Point, Va. on 7 May 1862.2

In the Antietam Campaign:
He and his company were serving as Headquarters Guard, VI Corps, on the Campaign.

The remainder of the War:
He was discharged on Surgeon's Certificate of 27 October 1862, presumably from the effects of his earlier wound.1,2

Birth State: PA

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17>, Source page: Beattes, Jacob H. [AotW citation 470]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 95th Inf. [AotW citation 471]

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