(1844 - 1915)
Home State: New Jersey
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th New Jersey Infantry
Before Antietam
By 1860 he was living in Newark, NJ, and he enlisted at age 18 in Company D, 13th New Jersey Infantry on 3 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 detached 20 September 1862 as cattle guard and returned to his Company in April 1863. He was slightly wounded in action at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863, and again, in action at Atlanta, GA in 1864, but did not need to leave his unit. He mustered out of service with his Company on 8 June 1865.
After the War
He was a moulder in an iron foundry, and had at least 9 children.
References & notes
Birth
08/25/1844; Passaic, NJ
Death
02/01/1915; East Orange, NJ; burial in Rosedale Cemetery, Orange, NJ
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, pp. 75 - 76 [AotW citation 17239]