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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

James H. Gaster

(c. 1845 - 1863)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 107th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 16 year old farm boy on his parent's place in Wells Township, Fulton County, PA. He enlisted there on 6 December 1861 and mustered as a Sergeant in Company H, 107th Pennsylvania Infantry on 9 January 1862 in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 6 February 1863, place not given.

References & notes

His service from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1845; Bedford, PA

Death

02/06/1863

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 10887]

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 27794]

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