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Federal (USV)

Private

John Snavely

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 130th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He was a 21 year old blacksmith in Mechanicsburg, PA when he enlisted there on 23 July 1862. He mustered into service as a Private in Company F, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry on 12 August 1862. at Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged on 13 November 1862 for his wounds.

References & notes

Basic information from Bates1 [clip] and the Card File.2 A casualty list in the Philadelphia Inquirer of 29 September 1862 has him in Company H, and says he was killed at Antietam.

Birth

c. 1841

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. 4, pg. 217 [AotW citation 11304]

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 28571]

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