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Federal (USV)

Private

George Donhower

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, he enlisted and mustered into service as a Private in Company D, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 23 January 1862 in Philadelphia.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was listed as "not accounted for" on his Company's muster-out roll.

References & notes

His service from the Card File 1 and Bates.2 Wound information from Nelson.3 He's also seen as John or George Donahower.

Birth

c. 1839

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>  [AotW citation 23464]

2   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871  [AotW citation 23465]

3   Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 190  [AotW citation 23466]