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Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He was in Company E, 6th Pennsylvania Reserves.
On the Campaign
He was wounded, severely in the hand, in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the Stone House (S. Poffenberger farm) Hospital at Sharpsburg, MD, and at a hospital in Frederick, MD. Bates has him listed as a deserter, though that may have been due to his absence for wound.
References & notes
Casualty information from Nelson1, who lists him as George Bingham. Details from Bates.
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. 132 [AotW citation 16435]