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(1838 - 1894)
Home State: Illinois
Branch of Service: Cavalry
Unit: 8th Illinois Cavalry
Before Antietam
From Paine's Point, he enlisted at St. Charles, IL in Company M, 8th Illinois Cavalry on 15 September 1861. He was listed in the Muster and Descriptive Roll as being a 22 year old carpenter at 5' 6" tall, with light hair and complexion, and blue eyes.
On the Campaign
He contracted Typhoid Fever at Antietam, was sent to McClellan Army Hospital, Philadelphia, and was discharged from there October 14, 1864.
After the War
He lived in Chester, PA.
References & notes
Basic information from the Adjutant General1.Details from great-grandson Thomas Rightmyer. His Descriptive Roll data online from the Illinois State Archives.
Birth
1838; Monroe County, NY
Death
04/25/1894; Chester, PA; burial in Chester Rural Cemetery, Chester, PA
1 State of Illinois, Adjutant General, and J.N Reece, Brig. Gen, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois (1861-66), 9 volumes, Springfield: Journal Company, Printers and Binders (State Printer), 1900-1902, Vol. VIII, pg. 147 [AotW citation 13958]