John Daugherty Weaver

A medical doctor in Westmoreland County, he mustered into service as First Lieutenant of Company K, 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry on 9 September 1861.

He was acting Adjutant of the regiment when he was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and he died the next day.

Service information from Bates,1 who says he was killed outright on 17 September. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

02/21/1834; Indiana County, PA

09/18/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Edgewood Cemetery, Saltsburg, PA