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(c. 1820 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
From Pottsville, age 41, with 12 years' service in the Royal Artillery, he enlisted there on 21 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry on 23 September.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 while carrying the state colors.
References & notes
His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Details from Colonel Cake’s Official Report, which has him as Solomon M. Minzi, and Hartwig3, who calls him Color Sergeant Solomon M. McMinzi, with 20 years prior service.
Birth
c. 1820 in SCOTLAND
Death
09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15357]
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 30913]
3 Hartwig, D. Scott, To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012, pg. 462 [AotW citation 15361]