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(c. 1823 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 38, he enlisted on 14 October 1861 and mustered the same day in Pottsville as a Private in Company K, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.
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 a field hospital in nearby Burkittsville, MD of wounds on 22 October 1862. His mother began receiving a pension in January 1863 based on his service.
Birth
c. 1823
Death
10/22/1862; Burkittsville, MD
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15383]
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 31017]