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J.S. Hall
(1828 - 1896)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 31 year old schoolmaster in Milesburg, Centre County, AP. He enrolled and mustered on 16 October 1861 as First Lieutenant, Company D, 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry. He was detailed to the Signal Corps in March 1862.
On the Campaign
On 11 September 1862 he was posted on Sugarloaf Mountain and was sent to Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry on 20 September.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Captain on 30 October 1862 and was at Fredericksburg, VA in December and at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863. He was appointed Captain, Signal Corps, USA on 23 August 1863 (to date from March). He was dropped on 16 November 1864 but reinstated on 18 January 1865. He was retired on 9 March 1865, honored by brevet to Major of Volunteers on 13 March 1865 for his actions at Gettysburg, and mustered out on 30 November 1865.
After the War
By 1880 he was a clerk with the Pennsylvania Railroad at Renovo, Clinton County, PA.
References & notes
His basic service from Bates1 and Heitman,2 with details from Brown,3 source also of his picture. Maryland Campaign events from Captain B.F. Fisher's Report. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860 and 1880, and his death notice in the Williamsport, PA Daily Gazette & Bulletin of 4 March 1896. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Asenath Iddings (1834-1934) in about 1851 and they had 9 children.
Birth
09/01/1828; Milesburg, PA
Death
03/02/1896; Renova, PA; burial in North Bend Cemetery, Clinton County, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 28708]
2 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, 2 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, Vol. 1, pg. 489 [AotW citation 28709]
3 Brown, J. Willard, The Signal Corps, U.S.A. in the War of the Rebellion, Boston: U.S. Veteran Signal Corps Association, 1896, before pg. 305; pp. 327, 784 [AotW citation 28710]