Open main menu
Open main menu
![[no picture yet]](images/none.gif)
[no picture yet]
(1834 - 1894)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 22 (24?) year old journeyman carpenter living with farmer John B Fry and family in Towamensing Township, Montgomery County, PA. He enlisted in Montgomery County, PA and mustered in Pottsville, PA as a Corporal in Company H, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry on 24 September 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his left thigh in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 while carrying the Colors.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital (GH) at Camp A in Frederick, MD on 4 October and was sent back to his unit on 4 March 1863. He mustered out with his Company on 21 October 1864.
After the War
He was a charter member (1882) of Colonel Edwin Schall Post 290 of the GAR in Lansdale, PA.
References & notes
His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 with Crampton's details from Colonel Cake’s Official Report. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
1834 in PA
Death
05/23/1894; burial in Wentz United Church of Christ Cemetery, Worcester, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15360]
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 31000]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #316 [AotW citation 31001]