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Federal (USV)

Private

John Clarey

(? - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted at Donaldson, PA on 16 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry at Pottsville on 23 September.

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 at Burkittsville, MD of wounds on 12 October 1862.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2

Death

10/12/1862; Bukittsville, MD

Notes

1   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry  [AotW citation 15377]

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 30985]