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Federal (USV)

Corporal

James B. Oliver

(c. 1839 - 1869)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A carpenter's son, in 1860 he was a 21 year old laborer living with his parents and 5 siblings in Port Carbon. He enlisted, with his brother Thomas, on 15 September 1861 and mustered as Corporal in Company C, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry at Pottsville, PA on 23 September.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in the right leg in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Sergeant on 10 October 1862 and First Sergeant on 21 March 1864. He mustered out with the regiment on 21 October 1864.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1839 in PA

Death

11/14/1869; burial in Port Carbon Presbyterian Cemetery, Port Carbon, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15332]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 30915]

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