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(1844 - 1922)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Of Welsh parents, not yet 18, he enlisted and mustered in Pottsville, PA on 1 January 1862 as a Private in Company I, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry, giving his age as 22.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his right leg in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His leg was amputated and he was admitted to the US Army General Hospital (GH) at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 13 November. He was discharged there for disability from wounds on 1 March 1863.
After the War
He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability later in March 1863. By 1880 he was a practicing physician at Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, PA. He was living in Camden, NJ by 1900, where he was the unsuccessful candidate for Mayor that year, and he was still practicing medicine there in 1910. He moved to live with his son in Atlantic City in about 1913.
References & notes
His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 3 and the MSHWR,4 via the Historical Data Systems database. Personal details from family genealogists, his pension card, via fold3, the US Census of 1880-1910, and his death notice in the Philadelphia Inquirer of 8 August 1922. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Margaret E. "Maggie" Thompson (1847-1916) in 1869 and they had 4 or 5 children.
Birth
04/05/1844; Minersville, PA
Death
08/06/1922; Atlantic City, NJ; burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Camden, NJ
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15382]
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 31005]
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 #472 [AotW citation 31006]
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 #472 [AotW citation 31011]
4 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883 [AotW citation 31012]