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(1838 - 1916)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 23, of Swiss parents, he enlisted and mustered at Pottsville, PA on 22 August (or 23 September) 1861 as a Private in Company A, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his leg, his tibia broken, in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp A in Frederick, MD on 15 November and was discharged there for disability from wounds on 6 (or 16) February 1863.
After the War
By 1870 he was a railroad worker in North Manheim Township, Schuylkill County, PA. In 1880 he was a saloon keeper in Pottsville and by 1910 had retired there.
References & notes
His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as Caleb King. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870, 1880, & 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Margaret (?; c. 1836-). He married again, Mary J. Runkle (1852-1931) in 1871 and they had a daughter Martha.
Birth
01/22/1838 in NJ
Death
07/29/1916; Pottsville, PA; burial in Presbyterian Cemetery, Pottsville, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15366]
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 30880]
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 #1.104 [AotW citation 31028]