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Federal (USV)

Private

Peter Lehman

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Pennsylvania Reserves (1st Rifles)

Before Antietam

An 18 year old "catcher" from Petersburg, PA, he enlisted in Perry County, PA on 27 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 13th Pennsylvania Reserves on 4 June in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 by a gunshot to his left arm that damaged his median nerve.

The rest of the War

He was sent to a US Army hospital at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, PA on 23 September and died of his wounds on 25 September 1862.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 which have his death on 20 September. Wound details from the MSHWR,3 which says he died on 25 September and was 22 years old. His arrival in Harrisburg from a list in the New York Times of 25 September 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

09/25/1862; Harrisburg, PA; burial in Duncannon Union Cemetery, Duncannon, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11418]

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 32106]

3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 465 [AotW citation 32107]

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