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Federal (USV)

Private

Franklin Treon

"Frank"

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, he enlisted at Lykens, PA and mustered into service as a Private in Company G, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry on 30 September 1861.

On the Campaign

After Antietam Colonel Cake reported:

While lying in position [on 17 September 1862], a round shot struck in Company G, killing [sic] Private Frank Treon and wounding Private McCoy Sargent.

His Captain, Jacob Haas, noted in his diary that evening:

The enemy sent solid shot, one of which struck two of my boys, taking two hands and leg of Frank Treon ... [he] died at 6 p.m.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Card File,2 also as Frank Treaon or Treanon. His wounding and death details from Captain Haas' wartime diary, extracted and interpreted by Haas' grandson James, online [PDF] from the US Army Heritage and Education Center. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11909]

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 23664]

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