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(? - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
From Mercer County, he enlisted and mustered as Private, Company G, 100th Pennsylvania Infantry on 31 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by gunshot to the shoulder, probably in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 17 September 1862 but died of his wounds on 4 October 1862.
References & notes
Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 as George W. Crooks. Service from Bates,2 who says he was killed at Antietam on 17 September. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Nancy Carmichael (1836-1917) and they had a son, John William Crooks.
Death
10/04/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3384]
2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 22131]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #75 [AotW citation 22132]