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(c. 1841 - 1904)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was an 18 year old saddler's apprentice to Alexander Underwood in York, PA. He enlisted there on 4 August 1861 and mustered into service as a Private in Company K, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry on 9 August 1862 in Harrisburg.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his left arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the Lyceum Hospital in Hagerstown, then transferred to a hospital in York where his arm was amputated very near the shoulder. He was discharged on a Surgeon's Certificate at York, PA on 16 January 1863.
After the War
He was living in Delta, York County in 1890 and died of liver failure at age 63 in 1904.
References & notes
His service information from Bates,1 the Card File,2 both as Stephen S. Barnett, and Brandt3, citing his Compiled Service Records, US National Archives. Wound and hospital details also from Brandt, and the MSHWR.4 Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Richard Snyder for the pointer to Barnett and Mr Brandt's excellent database.
He married Helen Annette Holmes (1838-1915) in December 1871; they had no children.
Birth
c. 1841; Lancaster County, PA
Death
07/09/1904; West Pittson, PA; burial in Mount Zion Cemetery, Exeter, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11222]
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 27940]
3 Brandt, Dennis W., South Central Pennsylvania Civil War Soldiers Database, York, PA: York County History Center [AotW citation 27942]
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, pg. 755 [AotW citation 27941]