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Federal (USV)

Private

James Kaercher

(c. 1843 - 1863)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted at Lykens, PA at age 18 on 23 September 1861 and mustered the same day as a Private in Company G, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his hip 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 B in Frederick, MD on 18 November and died there of wounds 8 February 1863.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 His wound detail from Captain Jacob Haas' wartime diary, extracted and interpreted by Haas' grandson James, online [PDF] from the US Army Heritage and Education Center. Additional wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

02/08/1863; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15375]

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 30905]

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 #587 [AotW citation 30906]

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