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(c. 1825 - 1884)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He arrived in Philadelphia from Liverpool with his sister Mary on 30 May 1849 aboard the packet ship Saranak of the Cope Line. In 1860 he was a 35 year old wool dyer in Media, Delaware County, PA. He enrolled at Camp Wayne in West Chester on 10 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 1st Pennsylvania Reserves on 26 July in Baltimore.
On the Campaign
He suffered a flesh wound in the right groin in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD, on 27 September, transferred to General Hospital #1 there on 2 January 1863, and sent on to a hospital in Baltimore on 15 June 1863. He was transferred to Company E, 20th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps in October 1863 and began receiving a pension on 17 September 1864.
After the War
By 1870 he was in Philadelphia and was working in a cotton mill there in 1880.
References & notes
Casualty and hospital information from Nelson1 and the Patient List.2 His service from Sypher3 and the Card File,4 as Caldwell Carr. Personal details from family genealogists, his Pension Card, and the US Census of 1860-1880.
He married Jane Waugh (1832-1923) in June 1853 in Chester, PA, and they had 11 children.
Birth
c. 1825; County Fermanagh, IRELAND
Death
10/14/1884
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. 155 [AotW citation 17133]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #529 [AotW citation 29085]
3 Sypher, Josiah Rhinehart, History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr and Company, 1865, pg. 569 [AotW citation 29086]
4 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 29087]