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(c. 1843 - 1871)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A carpenter's son, in 1860 he was a 17 year old laborer living with his parents and 5 siblings in Port Carbon. He enlisted, with his brother James, on 15 September 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company C, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry at Pottsville, PA on 23 September.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 while carrying the Colors.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 13 November and was discharged there on 5 (or 25) February 1863 for disability due to wounds.
After the War
By 1870 he was again a laborer in Schuylkill County, PA.
References & notes
His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Battle detail from Colonel Cake’s Official Report. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as Sergeant Thomas G. Oliver. Personal details from the US Census of 1860 and 1870; his marriage from the Pottsville Miner's Journal of 10 October 1866. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Ann Steinbach (1842-1907) in October 1866.
Birth
c. 1843 in PA
Death
06/06/1871; burial in Port Carbon Presbyterian Cemetery, Port Carbon, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15334]
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 30916]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #481 [AotW citation 31035]