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(1836 - 1867)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Education: Lafayette College (Law), Class of 1855
Command Billet: Commanding Detachment
Branch of Service: Cavalry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 24 year old attorney living with his widowed mother Catherine and 6 siblings at Lock Haven, Clinton County, PA. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant, First United States Cavalry on 27 March 1861 and promoted to First Lieutenant on 7 May. The regiment was renamed the 4th US Cavalry on 3 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He commanded Company A of the 4th US Cavalry, part of the Headquarters Escort, Army of the Potomac.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Captain on 14 December 1862. He served with his company through the war, but was dismissed from the US Army for "habitual drunkenness" on 25 July 1865.
After the War
He returned to Lock Haven, but died less than two years later, just 31 years old.
References & notes
His service basics from Heitman.1 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, also as T. Hood McCormick, Selden J. Coffin's Record of the Men of Lafayette (1879), and Don Caughey's Fiddler's Green bio sketch (2015). His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
02/24/1836; Mill Hall, PA
Death
03/30/1867; Lock Haven, PA; burial in Highland Cemetery, Lock Haven, PA
1 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, 2 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, Vol. 1, p. 660 [AotW citation 31870]