(1844 - 1904)
Home State: New Jersey
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th New Jersey Infantry
Before Antietam
Probably born at Ft. Gratiot, MI, he travelled with his somewhat itinerant minister father to Mississippi, Illinois, and New York before the War. He enlisted at age 18 in Company D, 13th New Jersey Infantry on 13 August 1862 and mustered as Private.
On the Campaign
He was in action with his Company at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in every engagement with his Company, and mustered out of service with them on 8 June 1865.
References & notes
Basic information from the D Society1. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His brother Charles, Jr. was also in the Company.
Birth
10/19/1844; St. Clair County, MI
Death
05/01/1904; San Fransisco, CA; burial in San Francisco National Cemetery, San Fransisco, CA
1 D Society, Veterans, Co. D 13th NJ Infantry, Historical Sketch of Co. D, 13th Regiment, N.J. Vols., Newark (NJ): D.H. Gildersleeve & Co., 1875, pg. 75 [AotW citation 17238]