(c. 1836 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 25 year old miller, he mustered into service as Private, Company K, 13th Pennsylvania Reserves on 3 October 1861 in Harrisburg.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1836
Death
09/14/1862; Turner's Gap, MD
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. 143 [AotW citation 16648]
2 Thomson, O. R. Howard, and William H. Rauch, History of the "Bucktails", Kane Rifle Regiment of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps (13th Pennsylvania Reserves, 42nd of the Line), Philadelphia: Electric Printing Co., 1906, pg. 430 [AotW citation 22988]
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 22989]