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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry P. Koons

(1840 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 19 year old carpenter living with his older brother James, a school teacher, and his family in Shippack, Montgomery County, PA. He enlisted in Montgomery County on 16 September 1861 and mustered in Pottsville on 23 September as a Private in Company H, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and died later the same day, probably at a field hospital nearby in Burkittsville, MD.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates,1 who says he was killed outright and has him as Henry P. Kuhns, and the Card File.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

10/1840

Death

09/14/1862; Burkittsville, MD; burial in Saint Luke's United Church of Christ Cemetery, Trappe, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15379]

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 30989]

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