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Federal (USV)

Private

Jacob Graeff

(c. 1830 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

From Bucks County, age 31, he enlisted and mustered at Pottsville, PA on 25 October 1861 as a Private in Company K, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was listed as a deserter in Maryland on 15 September 1862, but had been wounded by a gunshot to his foot, probably in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 24 October, transferred to Camp A, and was sent on to Baltimore on 5 March 1863.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as Jacob Graff.

Birth

c. 1830

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15384]

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 31018]

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 #121 [AotW citation 31094]

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