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Home State: Pennsylvania
Command Billet: Company Commander
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 56th Pennsylvania Infantry
see his Battle Report
Before Antietam
He mustered as Captain of Company D, 56th Pennsylvania Infantry on 15 October 1861.
On the Campaign
He assumed command of the 56th Pennsylvania Infantry as senior officer present when Lieutenant Colonel Hofmann took over the Brigade (2nd Brigade of the 1st Division, First Corps) on 14 or 15 September 1862.
On the 17th at Antietam, the 56th Pennsylvania and the brigade were held in reserve north of the Poffenberger farm to protect General Hooker's First Corps artillery.
The rest of the War
He resigned his commission on 25 March 1863.
References & notes
His service basics from Bates.1