(1840 - 1890)
Home State: New Jersey
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 2nd New Jersey Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted in Company K, 2nd New Jersey Infantry on 30 May 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 14 September 1862 at Crampton's Gap.
The rest of the War
He was discharged at the US Army General Hospital, Frederick, MD on 20 January 1863 from wounds received in action; left arm amputated.
References & notes
Basic information from State of New Jersey1. His gravesite online from NJ Civil War Gravestones. Wife Mary McCloud Fearey.
Birth
11/5/1840
Death
11/16/1890; burial in Fairmount Cemetery, Newark, NJ
1 State of New Jersey, Adjutant-General's Office, and William Scudder Stryker, Adjutant General, Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Trenton: John L. Murphy, Steam Book and Job Printer, 1876, Vol. 1, pp. 129 - 148 [AotW citation 14556]