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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

John Dougherty

(c. 1836 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 25, he enrolled and mustered on 23 September 1861 in Pottsville, PA as First Lieutenant of Company F, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on 14 September 1862 at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain. Colonel Cake wrote of him:

First Lieutenant John Dougherty, commanding Company F, was shot through the breast, at my side, while bravely leading his company to the final struggle at the road ... There was no better or braver soldier than Lieutenant John Dougherty.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 with details from Colonel Cake’s Report.

Birth

c. 1836

Death

09/14/1862; near Burkittsville, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15343]

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 30869]

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