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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Joseph Snively

(c. 1822 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 9th Pennsylvania Reserves

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 38 year old farmer with his father and siblings at White Ash in Allegheny County, PA. He enlisted there on 1 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C of the 9th Pennsylvania Reserves on 28 July in Washington, DC. He was appointed Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Elizabeth A. Black (1827-1850) in about 1848 and they had a son Henry (1849-1928).

Birth

c. 1822; Greencastle, PA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11943]

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 32182]

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