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(1840 - 1894)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Artillery
Before Antietam
He lived in Bristol, PA from 1842 until going into business in New York in 1860. He enlisted on 23 April 1861 in New York City and mustered as Sergeant, Company C, 9th New York Infantry on 4 May. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant of Company H on 1 June and promoted to First Lieutenant of Company K on Christmas Day, 1861.
On the Campaign
He was in command of the left section of the battery at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was appointed Captain on 30 September 1862 on the resignation of Captain Whiting and mustered out with his battery on 20 May 1863 in New York City.
After the War
He was in the "West India Trade" and in 1882 became a right-of-way agent on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
References & notes
Service data from State of New York1 and Phisterer2. His role at Antietam from Graham.3 Personal details from his gravesite on Findagrave and his obituary in the Bucks County Gazette of 24 May 1894.
More on the Web
A typescript of his wartime letters are online from the NY State Military Museum. The originals and other of his papers are in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Birth
1840; Philadelphia, PA
Death
05/18/1894; Bristol, PA; burial in Saint James Episcopal Church, Bristol, PA
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 18 (for the year 1899), pg. 724 [AotW citation 12583]
2 Phisterer, Frederick, New York in the War of the Rebellion, 6 volumes, Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1909-12, Vol. 3, pg. 1841 [AotW citation 12584]
3 Graham, Matthew John, The Ninth Regiment, New York Volunteers (Hawkins' Zouaves), New York: E.P. Coby & Company, Printers, 1900, pg. 280 [AotW citation 12585]