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Federal (USV)

Private

Leander Arendt

"Coley"

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Maryland

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Pennsylvania Reserves

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 21 year old clerk, probably in the family mercantile business, and lived with his father Jacob and 6 siblings at Grantsville, Allegany County, MD. On 15 June 1861, 5' 8" tall, blue-eyed, and fair-haired, he gave his occupation as farmer when he enrolled at Chambersburg, PA, and he mustered as a Private in Company K, 12th Pennsylvania Reserves at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg on 10 August. He transferred to Company A on 20 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to the neck in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and probably died the same day.

References & notes

Basic information from Bates,1 Sypher,2 both as Leander Arndt, and the Card File ;3 all 3 have him as killed outright at Antietam. Personal details from the US Census of 1860 and his wound from a notice in the Cumberland Civilian and Telegraph of 2 October 1862, kindly provided by Christy Centeno.

Birth

c. 1839 in MD

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11204]

2 Sypher, Josiah Rhinehart, History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr and Company, 1865, pg. 698 [AotW citation 28883]

3 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 28884]

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