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Federal (USV)

Private

John Carr

(c. 1821 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

At age 40 he enlisted and mustered in Pottsville on 12 October 1861 as a Private in Company D, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of his wounds in a field hospital at Burkittsville, MD on 19 September 1862.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2

Birth

c. 1821

Death

09/19/1862; Burkittsville, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15368]

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 30931]

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