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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Gomer Jones

(1841 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He came to America with his family by about 1845 and in 1850 lived in Schuykill County, PA with his father Morgan, a miner, mother Mary, and younger sister Mary. In 1860, still living with his parents and now 3 siblings, he was a 19 year laborer in Pottsville. On 22 August 1861 he enlisted and mustered there as a Corporal in Company A, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 & 1860.

Birth

01/18/1841; Dowlais, Glamorgan, WALES

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15365]

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 30879]

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