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(1843 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A carpenter's son, age 19, he enlisted on 2 August 1862 in West Chester, PA and mustered on 6 September in Harrisburg as a Private in Company H, 13th Pennsylvania Reserves.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his arm and body while on picket duty, probably in the East Woods at Antietam on 16 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 3 October and died there on 12 November 1862.
References & notes
Service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 both of which have him killed at Antietam on 16 September. His probable wounding at Antietam from Nelson,3 citing a casualty list in the Philadelphia Inquirer of 27 September 1862. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,4 as J.R. Butler, 42nd Regiment. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850. His gravesite is on Findagrave; source also of the "picket duty" detail, from resolutions of his lodge of the International Organization of Good Templars (IO of GT) - a national temperance society - printed in the West Chester Village Record of 16 December 1862.
Birth
1843 in PA
Death
11/12/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in New London United Methodist Church Cemetery, New London, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11410]
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 31191]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 151 [AotW citation 31192]
4 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #756 [AotW citation 31193]