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J. Mooney

J. Mooney

Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

John Mooney

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 155th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He enrolled as 2nd Lieutenant in Company H, 155th Pennsylvania Infantry on 22 August 1862.

On the Campaign

"... a faithful and deserving officer, broke down on the Antietam Campaign from fatigues and exposure, suffering very severely, and was forced to go to the hospital, and was never able to return to duty ..."

The rest of the War

He was discharged 20 January 1863.

References & notes

Basic information, his picture, and the quote above from Porter1.

Notes

1   Porter, John T. , Financial Secretary, and Charles F. McKenna, compiler & editor, Under the Maltese Cross, Antietam to Appomattox, the Loyal Uprising in Western Pennsylvania, 1861-1865: Campaigns of the 155th Pennsylvania Regiment, Pittsburgh: 155th Regimental Association, 1910, pp. 448 - 492  [AotW citation 13590]