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(c. 1841 - 1926)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was an 18 year old farmer living with his parents and 2 younger brothers on the family place in Cherry Township, Butler County, PA. He enlisted on 10 June 1861 in Sunbury, PA and mustered on 29 July in Washington, DC as a Private in Company C, 11th Pennsylvania Reserves. He was captured at Gaines' Mill, VA on 27 June 1862. He was wounded at 2nd Bull Run in August.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862 by a gunshot which
... entered the right scapula, causing partial anchylosis [immobility] of both shoulder joints.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 3 December 1862 at the Newton University Hospital in Baltimore.
After the War
In January 1869 a pension examiner reported
The left arm is seriously disabled for work of any kind; the disability is caused by a gunshot through the bodies of both of the scapulae; the disability will probably increase; it has increased since the last examination.By 1880 he was farming in Tulare, CA. In October 1906, having been an engineer in Oakland, CA, he was admitted to the Pacific Branch, National Home For Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Sawtelle near Los Angeles, CA. He died there at about 85 years old in 1926.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1841 in PA
Death
01/27/1926; Sawtelle, CA; burial in Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 32116]
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 32117]
3 Sypher, Josiah Rhinehart, History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr and Company, 1865, p. 688 [AotW citation 32118]
4 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. 487 [AotW citation 32119]