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Federal (USV)

Corporal

James C. Crozier

(c. 1829 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 124th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

About age 33, from Rockdale, he enlisted on 4 August 1862 in Media and mustered as Corporal, Company D, 124th Pennsylvania Infantry on 9 August in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Line Farm field hospital near Sharpsburg but died there of wounds on 21 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Register.2 Wound and hospital details from Nelson.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1829

Death

09/21/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Calvary Episcopal Cemetery, Aston Mills, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11139]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant General's Office, Register of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, 16 volumes, Harrisburg [AotW citation 23791]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 178 [AotW citation 23792]

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