Samuel Jones Cloyd

A 28 year old cabinet maker in Huntingdon County, he enlisted in Harrisburg on 17 March 1862 and mustered into service as First Sergeant, Company I, 12th Pennsylvania Reserves on 7 April. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on 14 April.

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 14 September 1862:

I was wounded by a minnie rifle ball which passed nearly through the arm, about two inches above the elbow, breaking the bone entirely off, and rendering necessary, the amputation of the arm about four inches below the shoulder.

He resigned his commission on 7 January 1863.

In December 1865 he was working in the Ordnance Office of the US War Department in Washington D.C. By 1870 he lived in the Borough of Orbisonia, Huntingdon County and from 1870-1872 was County Treasurer. By 1880 he was a farmer and in 1900 a house carpenter there. He'd finally retired by 1910.

Service information from Hardin1 and the Card File.2 The quote above from a letter of 26 December 1865 he wrote entering a left-hand penmanship contest, now at the Library of Congress. Details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Miller (1856-1933) in Huntington County in 1889 and they had 4 sons by 1894; the last, Robert, a twin, died as an infant.

12/15/1833; Orbisonia, PA

03/17/1925; Orbisonia, PA; burial in IOOF Memorial Cemetery, Rockhill Furnace, PA