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Federal (USV)

Private

Samuel Livergood

(1807 - 1895)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 106th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He was postmaster at Eaglesmere, Lycoming County, PA by 1850. On 14 August 1861, then 53 years old, he enlisted as Private, Company F, 106th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a hospital in Frederick, MD and was discharged, date not given.

After the War

He operated a saw-mill in Hughesville and lived there to at least 1890, when his veteran's pension was restored.

References & notes

Service information from Ward.1 He's not found in Bates' History of Pennsylvania Volunteers. Hospital detail from Nelson.2 His occupation from a List of Post Offices in the United States (1851) and the Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District (1899). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

11/17/1807; Lycoming County, PA

Death

06/05/1895; burial in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Hughesville, PA

Notes

1 Ward, Joseph R. C., History of the One-Hundred and Sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865 (2nd Ed.), Philadelphia: Grant, Faires & Rogers, 1906, pg. 342 [AotW citation 21591]

2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 291 [AotW citation 21653]

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