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Federal (USV)

Private

John Boorem, III

(1832 - 1916)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 29, from Philadelphia, he enlisted and mustered in Philadelphia in Company H, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 17 December 1861.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson.1 His service from the Card File,2 as John Boonem. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

06/27/1832; Paradise Valley, PA

Death

03/24/1916; Monroe County, PA; burial in Oakland Cemetery, Mountainhome, 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. 136  [AotW citation 16492]