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(c. 1842 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his parents and older brother in Scranton, PA. Giving his occupation as laborer, like his father, he enlisted there on 9 August 1862 and mustered into service as a Private in Company K, 132nd Pennsylvania Infantry on 14 August in Harrisburg.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds in a field hospital on or near the battlefield on 18 September 1862.
References & notes
His service information from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Death detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862, as P.W. Bosman. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.
Birth
c. 1842 in NY
Death
09/18/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11396]
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 30066]