Joseph Shutt Johnson

Probably a German speaker, in 1860 he was a 25 year old living with his parents and 3 siblings on the family farm at Shippackville, Montgomery County, PA. He enlisted on 16 September 1861 in Montgomery County, PA and mustered on 21 October in Pottsville as Sergeant, Company H, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his head in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 while carrying the Colors.

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp A in Frederick, MD on 6 October and returned from the hospital to his Company on 26 November 1862. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 5 March 1863 and mustered out with his Company on 21 October 1864.

By 1870 and to his death in 1918 he lived in Norristown, PA; he was a dealer in flour and feed in 1870, a laborer in 1880, and a carpenter in 1900. In 1910, then age 75, he had retired and was living with his daughter Maggie and her family.

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 with his role at Crampton's Gap from Colonel Cake’s Official Report. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Eliza Jane Crawford (1843-1901) in October 1865 and they had 4 children.

01/28/1835; Skippack, PA

02/09/1918; Norristown, PA; burial in Trinity Christian United Church Cemetery, Skippack, PA