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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Ephraim Case

(c. 1827 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Pennsylvania Reserves

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 33 year old laborer in Haycock Township, Bucks County, PA. He enrolled in Easton, PA on 18 June 1861 and mustered into service as a Private (or Corporal) in Company H, 3rd Pennsylvania Reserves on 18 June 1861; He gave his occupation as stage driver. He was appointed First Sergeant of his Company, date not known.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Basic service information from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Sarah Ann Smetzer (1835-1907) and they had 3 children between 1853 and 1859. She began receiving a veteran's widow's pension in February 1863.

Birth

c. 1827 in PA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11466]

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 26988]

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