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Home State: Pennsylvania
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
From Philadelphia, he mustered into service as Captain of Company A, 109th Pennsylvania Infantry on 11 March 1862.
On the Campaign
He led the regiment as senior officer present on the Maryland Campaign, Colonel Stainrook having brigade command. They were not engaged at South Mountain on 14 September or Antietam on the 17th, having been detached to guard supply wagon trains on 9 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged on 14 October 1862. He enrolled again, on 19 July 1863 in New Orleans, LA as First Lieutenant of Company I, 4th US Colored Cavalry. He was promoted to Captain of Company H on 22 February 1864, and mustered out in March 1866.
After the War
He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in January 1880.
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31874]
2 US Army, Adjutant General, Official Army Register of the Volunteer Forces, U. S. Army, 8 vols., Washington, DC: Adjutant General's Office, 1867 [AotW citation 31875]