Adam Swartzlander

Age 28, a farmer from Butler County, PA, he enlisted in Pittsburgh, PA on 1 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 9th Pennsylvania Reserves on 27 or 28 July in Washington, DC.

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, probably along the Hagerstown Pike in or near Daniel Miller's cornfield.

His widow applied in October 1862 and she and her children began receiving a veteran's pension in September 1863, starting at $8 per month, plus $2 for each child (until they reached 17 years). She was receiving $12 a month at her death more than 40 years later in 1907.

He was reinterred from his original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery in about 1867.

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from Bates2 and the Card File.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1850, and Margaret Jane's pension application, online from fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Owner sstacy155853 kindly shared a pre-war photograph of him to the fold3 database; located by Jim Buchanan.

He married Margaret Jane Beatty (later Shontz, 1832-1907) in March 1853 and they had 3 children; they named their third Adam Lincoln Swartzlander (1861-1936).

11/04/1832; Sugarcreek Township, Armstrong County, PA

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD