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A. Wamsley
(c. 1838 - 1887)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 22 year old carpenter in Philadelphia. He enlisted and mustered there on 23 April 1861 as a Private in Company E, 22nd Pennsylvania Infantry for 3 months' service. He mustered out with them on 7 August. He enlisted and mustered again, on 3 September 1861, as a Private in Company C, 88th Pennsylvania Infantry. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 1 September 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated in the field hospital on the Susan Hoffman farm at Sharpsburg. He was promoted to Captain on 16 February 1864 and discharged on 2 May 1864, for disability from his Antietam wound. He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in December 1864.
After the War
By 1870 he was in New York City, again a carpenter.
References & notes
His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 also as And'w J. Wamsley. Wound and hospital details from Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph offered by Medhurst & Company; thanks to John Banks for the pointer to that.
He married Catherine (Brown?; 1842-) and they had a daughter Sarah Jane in about 1865 in Philadelphia.
Birth
c. 1838 in IRELAND
Death
04/24/1887; burial in Cypress Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11865]
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 31157]
3 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. 427 [AotW citation 31158]