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(1830 - 1888)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Command Billet: Company Commander
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He was commissioned Captain, 11th United States Infantry on 5 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He commanded Company G, 11th US Infantry on the Maryland Campaign.
The rest of the War
He was later honored by brevet to Major for his gallantry at Fredericksburg on 13 December 1862, where he was wounded in the neck.
After the War
He remained in the Regular Army, transferred to the 29th US Infantry on 21 September 1866 at the Army reorganization, then back to the 11th Infantry on 25 April 1869. He resigned his commission on 1 January 1870.
He was then a ticket and freight agent, probably on the Allegheny Valley Railroad at Brookville in Jefferson County, PA, and later ran his own store there.
References & notes
Military service dates from Heitman1. His command at Antietam from Reese.2 His Fredericksburg wound from an 18 December casualty list in the New York Times of 21 December 1862. Personal details from his death notice in the Brookville, PA Jeffersonian Democrat of 1 August 1888, kindly posted to Findagrave by Barb Kopshina. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
More on the Web
His commissioning certificate, signed by President Lincoln, Secretary of War Simon Cameron, and Army Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas sold at auction in 2007 for $7,767.50.
Birth
01/14/1830 in PA
Death
07/29/1888; Jefferson County, PA; burial in Beulah Land Cemetery, Reynoldsville, PA
1 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, 2 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, Vol. 1, pg. 619 [AotW citation 21486]
2 Reese, Timothy J., Sykes' Regular Infantry Division, 1861-1864: A History of Regular United States Infantry Operations in the Civil War's Eastern Theater, Jefferson (NC): McFarland&Company, Inc., 1990 [AotW citation 21487]