(1841 - 1937)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 20 year old farmer in Perry County, he enlisted there on 27 May 1861 and mustered into service as Private, Company B, 13th Pennsylvania Reserves on 4 June in Harrisburg.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 16 or 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He reenlisted on 1 February 1864 and transferred to Company B, 190th Pennsylvania Infantry on 31 May 1864 with no further military record.
Birth
01/03/1841
Death
07/15/1937; Perry County, PA; burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Duncannon, PA
1 Thomson, O. R. Howard, and William H. Rauch, History of the "Bucktails", Kane Rifle Regiment of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps (13th Pennsylvania Reserves, 42nd of the Line), Philadelphia: Electric Printing Co., 1906, pg. 353 [AotW citation 22950]
2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 22951]