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Federal (USV)

Private

Patrick McCallister

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted and mustered on 1 October 1861 in Pottsville, PA as a Private in Company K, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862, then age 21.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 both as Patrick McAlister. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his government headstone has him as Patrick McAllister.

Birth

c. 1841 in IRELAND

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD; burial in Saint Vincent de Paul Cemetery #1, Minersville, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15385]

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 31021]

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