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Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted as Private, Company B, 106th Pennsylvania Infantry on 28 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the left thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the Hoffman Farm field hospital at Sharpsburg, transferred to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD, then to Philadelphia. He returned to duty, date not given. He was wounded again, at Gettysburg on 2 July 1863, at the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and at Petersburg, VA on 22 June 1864, when he was also captured. He was released, date not given, and discharged on 12 June 1865.
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. 314 [AotW citation 21624]
2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. V , pg. 838 [AotW citation 21625]
3 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. 312 [AotW citation 21626]