(c. 1841 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 20 year old miller in Mifflin County, he enlisted there on 9 September 1861, and mustered into service as Private, Company C, 45th Pennsylvania Infantry in October in Harrisburg.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Fox's Gap on on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1841
Death
09/14/1862; Fox's Gap, 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 23054]
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 23055]