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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Levi S. Bennethum

(1839 - 1915)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 22 year old brick maker in Berks County, he enlisted and mustered as 3rd Corporal in Company E, 14th Pennsylvania Infantry for 3 months' service on 24 April 161 at Harrisburg. He mustered out with his Company on 7 August. He again enlisted, and mustered into Company D, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 21 November 1861 in Philadelphia.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was unaccounted for with no further military record after Antietam. Family records say he served at Fredericksburg and Gettysburg and was promoted to Sergeant.

After the War

He worked as a brick maker in Berks County and was also a road commissioner, tax collector, and constable (1880) in Womelsdorf.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson.1 His service from Bates,2 who lists him as Private Levi Benathum, and the Card File,3 as Levi Bennethem. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Catherine Corcoran (1846-1917) about 1865 and they had 5 children.

Birth

12/22/1839; Womelsdorf, PA

Death

08/26/1915; Womelsdorf, PA; burial in Zion Lutheran and Reformed Cemetery, Womelsdorf, PA

Notes

1 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 130 [AotW citation 16378]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23411]

3 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 23412]

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