Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted as Corporal, Company C, 106th Pennsylvania Infantry on 20 August 1861.
On the Campaign
At Antietam on 17 September 1862:
Colonel Morehead's horse was shot from under him, and, falling, held him fast until released by Sergeant Joseph Taylor and Corporals McNeal and Stephen Taylor of Company C.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 12 December 1862.
References & notes
Basic information and the quote above from Ward1.
1 Ward, Joseph R. C., History of the One-Hundred and Sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865 (2nd Ed.), Philadelphia: Grant, Faires & Rogers, 1906, pp. 105, 318 [AotW citation 21542]