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Federal (USV)

Private

Robert D. Weaver

"Ben"

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted at age 22 at Lykenstown, PA on 13 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry in Pottsville.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left leg and ankle 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 A in Frederick, MD on 4 October and was furloughed on 16 January 1863. He was discharged on a Surgeon’s Certificate later in 1862.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 also as Robert D. Wearer. The pointer to his wounding at Crampton’s Gap from diaries of Henry Keiser and Jacob Haas - transcribed online by Jake Wynn. Specific wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3

Birth

c. 1839

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15388]

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 30980]

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 #459 [AotW citation 30981]

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