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Federal (USV)

Private

Jacob U. Weekly

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Battery B

Before Antietam

He enlisted and mustered into service as Private, Battery B, First Pennsylvania Light Artillery on 11 September 1861 in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

Discharged on February 4, 1863, for wounds received at Antietam on September 17, 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Card File.

Notes

1   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871  [AotW citation 11946]