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"Abe"
(1832 - 1912)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 27 year old carpenter in Windsor, Berks County, PA. He enlisted and mustered at Pottsville on 5 November 1861 as a Private in Company G, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.
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
He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 24 October and was discharged from Camp A on a Surgeon’s Certificate on 15 December 1862.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Catawissa or Locust, Columbia County, PA. By 1900 he had retired and to at least 1910 lived with his daughter Sylvia and her family in Franklin Township, Columbia County.
References & notes
His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 both as Abraham Strasser. 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 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Adaline Breech (1832-1899) and they had at least 8 children between 1854 and 1881.
He was one of 6 Strassers/Strausers in Company G.
Birth
04/07/1832; Columbia County, PA
Death
09/18/1912; Catawissa, PA; burial in Freewill Cemetery, Roaring Creek Township, Columbia County, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15391]
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 30975]
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 #55 [AotW citation 30976]