Arthur Branagan

In 1860 he was a 24 year old bartender in his Irish-born father Matthew's inn in Pottsville, PA. He enlisted there for 3 months' service and mustered in Harrisburg as a Private in Company I, 16th Pennsylvania Infantry on 26 April 1861. He mustered out with the regiment on 30 July. He enlisted again, on 7 November 1861 and mustered the next day as a Corporal in Company C, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry in Pottsville.

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

He transferred to the 96th Battalion in August 1864 and mustered out on 8 November 1864.

In 1870 he was a engineer living with his widowed mother and sister Mary in Pottsville. In 1880 he was a laborer there. By 1910, then age 74 and still unmarried, he was a railroad "wood ranger" and boarded with Albert and Elizabeth Schum in Pottsville.

His service basics from Bates,1 as Arthur Brannigan, and the Card File,2 also as Arthur Branigan. Personal details from the US Census of 1860-1880, 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

03/07/1836; Frackville, PA

09/17/1915; Pottsville, PA; burial in Saint Patricks Cemetery #3, Pottsville, PA