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(c. 1836 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He mustered as Private, Company G, 125th Pennsylvania Infantry on 13 August in Harrisburg.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a field hospital on the John Poffenberger Farm near Sharpsburg but died there of wounds on 26 September 1862. He was originally buried on the battlefield but his remains were taken home for burial there in March 1863.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1836 in PA
Death
09/26/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Hollidaysburg Presbyterian Cemetery, Hollidaysburg, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. IV, pg. 122 [AotW citation 1359]
2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 365 [AotW citation 25370]