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(c. 1835 - ?)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 26 year old merchant in Cameron County, he enlisted there on 1 June 1861 and mustered into service as Private, Company C, 13th Pennsylvania Reserves on 5 June in Harrisburg.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was wounded again, at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 8 May 1864. He transferred to Company C, 190th Pennsylvania Infantry about June 1864. He was captured on the Weldon Railroad, VA and was a prisoner from 19 August 1864 to 22 February 1865. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on 28 June 1865 and promoted to First Lieutenant on 3 July but did not muster at that rank. He mustered out with his Company on 28 June 1865.
Birth
c. 1835
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. 363 [AotW citation 22952]
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 22953]