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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Harrison Schall

"Harry"

(1835 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 45th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 26 year old laborer in Centre County, PA, he enlisted in Harrisburg on 12 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 45th Pennsylvania Infantry the same day. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his left shoulder in action at Fox's Gap on on South Mountain on 14 September 1862. The damaged head of his humerus (upper arm) bone was removed by a surgeon on 16 September.

The rest of the War

He died of his wounds at a field hospital in Middletown, MD on 8 November 1862.

References & notes

Service information from the History 1 and the Card File.2. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

01/30/1835

Death

11/08/1862; Middletown, MD; burial in Old Pine Grove Mills Cemetery, Pine Grove Mills, PA

Notes

1 Albert, Alan D., editor, and Comrades of the Regimental Association, History of the Forty-fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865, Williamsport (Pa): Grit Pub. Co., 1912, pg. 466 [AotW citation 23072]

2 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 23073]

3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 537 [AotW citation 23074]

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