(1839 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted and mustered into service in Company H, 51st Pennsylvania Infantry on 19 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Antietam less than a month later on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
Birth
03/28/1839
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Elimsport Cemetery, Elimsport, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11560]
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 23184]