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(1843 - 1926)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
From Younwood, PA, he mustered as Private, Company C, 8th Pennsylvania Reserves on 17 April 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
Another soldier's body was misidentified as his and was reintered in the National Cemetery. Henry identified the error when he attended the ceremony dedicating the new cemetery on 17 September 1867.
After the War
He returned to Youngwood, PA, and was mayor in 1898.
References & notes
Basic service information from Bates,1 who says he was killed on South Mountain. Details from the ANC Teacher's Packet. His stone at Antietam National Cemetery is on Findagrave.
Birth
05/01/1843; Port Perry, PA
Death
06/02/1926; Greenburg, PA; burial in St. John's Reformed Cemetery, Greenburg, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 21060]