Barton P. Harper

Age 23 years. Enlisted, October 7, 1861, at Binghamton, to serve three years; mustered in as Private, Co. H, October 11,1861. Promoted Corporal, no date.

Discharged for disability December 10, 1862, at Fredericksburg, VA.

He was first postmaster of Chenangoforks (before and later Chenango Forks), Broome County, NY 1895 - 96.

Basic information from State of New York1. Probably the writer “Barton” whose 22 September letter about the campaign was published in his hometown newspaper the Broome Weekly Republican on 8 October (PDF). Life dates from his gravesite on Findagrave.

1839

1926; burial in Riverhurst Cemetery, Endicott, NY