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Federal (USV)

Private

John Haley

(c. 1834 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 27, he enlisted at Donaldson, PA on 23 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry at Pottsville the same date.

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 wounds on 15 September 1862, probably in a field hospital in Burtkittsville, MD.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2

There were at least 6 other John Haleys in the regiment, Privates in Companys F and I, including one Senior/Junior pair.

Birth

c. 1834

Death

09/15/1862; Burtkittsville, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15378]

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 30986]

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