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(1831 - 1903)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He enrolled as the original 2nd Lieutenant on organization of Company G, 155th Pennsylvania Infantry on 28 August 1862.
On the Campaign
Commanded Company G in recon across the Potomac near Shepherdstown, VA on 19 September 1862.
The rest of the War
Resigned, mustered out on 10 January 1863.
References & notes
Basic information from Porter1. Life dates from cemetery information posted by Gary Patterson. His wife was (Anna) Katherine (or Katharine) Kribbs Meeker (1834-1907).
More on the Web
See a post-War photo of Meeker and his wife from MH Shearer on Findagrave.
Birth
07/13/1831; Armstrong County, PA
Death
04/28/1903; Tyler County, WV; burial in Mount Hope Cemetery, Tyler County, WV
1 Porter, John T. , Financial Secretary, and Charles F. McKenna, compiler & editor, Under the Maltese Cross, Antietam to Appomattox, the Loyal Uprising in Western Pennsylvania, 1861-1865: Campaigns of the 155th Pennsylvania Regiment, Pittsburgh: 155th Regimental Association, 1910, pp. 448 - 492 [AotW citation 13589]