John T. Boyle

A new lawyer, age 28, he enrolled in Pottsville on 12 September 1861 in Company D, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry and mustered there as their Captain on 23 September. He was wounded in action at Gaines’ Mill, VA on 27 June 1862.

He commanded his Company in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He mustered out with his Company on 21 October 1864.

He wrote for the Pottsville Miner's Journal, and in about 1873 was appointed to a post in the Pennsylvania Auditor General’s department, where he worked for "many years." He later lived in Philadelphia, back in Pottsville, and finally, Williamstown, PA. He was a widowed lawyer at his death there in 1912.

His service from Bates1 and the Card File.2 His presence on the Campaign from Colonel Cake’s Official Report and his own narrative in the Pottsville Miner's Journal of 30 September 1871, cited by Ward.3 Personal details from his obituary in the Lykens Standard of 18 October 1912, online from newspapers.com. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

01/06/1833; Pottsville, PA

10/11/1912; Williamstown, PA; burial in Presbyterian Cemetery, Pottsville, PA