(c. 1837 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 24, from Philadelphia, he enlisted there on 26 August 1861 and mustered into service as Sergeant, Company K, 69th Pennsylvania Infantry on 31 October at Camp Observation, MD.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1837; Rathvilly, County Carlow, IRELAND
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Old Cathedral Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11616]
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 23290]