(? - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
From Elk County, he enlisted and mustered as Private, Company G, 13th Pennsylvania Reserves on 29 May 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by gunshot to his right thigh, with compound fracture, probably in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 18 September, his leg was amputated at the thigh on 23 September, but he "died on [the] table".
References & notes
Death
09/23/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 22128]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #107 [AotW citation 22129]