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Federal (USV)

Corporal

John Patterson Wilson

(1842 - 1913)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 100th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, from Butler County, he mustered as Private, Company C, 100th Pennsylvania Infantry on 31 August 1861. He was promoted Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company on South Mountain on 14 September, and at Antietam on the 17th. He may have been in wounded in one or both battles.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Sergeant on 13 November 1862. He was severely wounded in the right forearm in action at Poplar Grave Church, VA on 2 October 1864, and discharged for wounds on 20 March 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Bates.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

03/18/1842; Lawrence County, PA

Death

06/29/1913; Wayne Township, Lawrence County, PA; burial in Slippery Rock Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Ellwood City, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 17684]

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