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(c. 1839 - ?)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
About age 22, he enlisted in Philadelphia as Private in Company C, 24th Pennsylvania Infantry for 3 months' service. He mustered out with them and almost immediately reenlisted, in Philadelphia on 29 August 1861, and mustered into service as Corporal, Company K, 69th Pennsylvania Infantry on 31 October at Camp Observation, MD.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863. He was not listed on his Company's muster-out roll of July 1865.
Birth
c. 1839
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. 139 [AotW citation 16536]
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 23297]