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Federal (USV)

Private

John Frazer

(c. 1827 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 30 (33) year old laborer living with wife Jane and 5 children in Ashland Township, Schuylkill County, PA. He enlisted at age 34 at Pottsville on 22 September 1861 and mustered there the next day as a Private in Company C, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left thigh in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp A in Frederick, MD on 12 October and sent back to his regiment on 23 December. He was discharged for wounds on a Surgeon's Certificate on 25 February 1863.

He enlisted again and mustered as a Private in Company G, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry on on 7 March 1864. He was absent in a hospital in Philadelphia after 25 April 1864 with no later military record.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates,1 as John Frazier, and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 Personal details from the US Census of 1860, as John Fraser.

Birth

c. 1827 in IRELAND

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15336]

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 30893]

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 #389 [AotW citation 30894]

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