John Thomas Hannum

Age 36, he enrolled and mustered on 23 September 1861 as a Sergeant in Company D, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry. He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant (in 1861?).

In his after-action report, Colonel Cake wrote of the action at Crampton's Gap on 14 September 1862:

Lieutenant Sailor[sic], Company A; Lieutenant Hannum, Company D; Lieutenant Russell, Company C, and Lieutenant Huber, Company B, rendered marked services on the field.

He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 21 November 1862, and appointed Adjutant of the Regiment on 27 December 1862. He was wounded in the right arm at Cold Harbor, VA on 1 June 1864 by "a fragment of defective shell, fired by one of our batteries." His arm was amputated but he died on 7 June 1864.

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Personal details from a bio sketch in Memorial of the Patriotism of Schuylkill County (1865). Cold Harbor wound and medical details from the MSHWR,3 via the Historical Data Systems database. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

03/02/1824; Delaware County, PA

06/07/1864; Cold Harbor, VA; burial in Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville PA