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Federal (USV)

Private

John H. Southwick

(c. 1830 - 1900)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 88th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 31, from Philadelphia, he enlisted and mustered there as a Private in Company K, 88th Pennsylvania Infantry on 12 September 1861. He transferred to Company C, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the shoulder or abdomen in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Academy Hospital in Chambersburg, PA and a bullet or other "foreign body" was removed. He recovered and was discharged for disability on 27 September 1863.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was an umbrella maker in Philadelphia.

References & notes

Service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR 3 and Nelson.4 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Ellis Cochran (1834-1900) and they had at least 2 daughters.

Birth

c. 1830 in PA

Death

04/02/1900; Philadelphia, PA; burial in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11860]

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 31549]

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. 12 [AotW citation 31550]

4 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 396 [AotW citation 31551]

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