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Federal (USV)

Private

Peter P. Close

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Pennsylvania Reserves (1st Rifles)

Before Antietam

A 23 year old laborer at Meadville, PA, he enlisted and mustered on 13 May 1861 as a Private in Company I, 13th Pennsylvania Reserves.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He mustered out with his company at the end of their term of service on 11 June 1864. He had later service in the 72nd Company, 2nd Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps.

After the War

His widow began to receive a pension in August 1889 based on his service.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Personal detail from his pension card, online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1838

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11411]

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 31190]

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