Daniel S. Gardner

In 1860 he was a 20 year old railroad car runner living with conductor Jasper Gardner (how related?) and others in Ann Falkenberry's boarding house in Hyde Park, Luzerne County, PA. He enlisted in Scranton, PA on 9 August 1862, by then a 22 year old train conductor in Massachusetts, and mustered in Harrisburg on 16 August as a Corporal in Company I of the 132nd Pennsylvania Infantry.

In combat at the Sunken Road at Antietam on 17 September 1862, he

fought nobly and was retiring with honors from the front when he fell pierced through the head with a rifle ball. He had five cartridges left, having shot at least 55 shots as all had 60 rounds before we went into the fight.

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 The battle quote above from a letter Captain Archibald wrote home, posted online by Dan Masters. Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave; he may have been reinterred in the National Cemetery after the war as an unknown, but he is not listed among those buried there by name.

Jasper Gardner was killed at Cedar Creek, VA on 19 October 1864 while a Private in Company C, 47th Pennsylvania Infantry.

c. 1840 in NH

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD