(1838 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 23 year old farmer in Middlebury, he enlisted in Tioga County on 18 September 1861, and mustered into service as Corporal, Company H, 45th Pennsylvania Infantry later that month 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
1838; Middlebury Center, PA
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 23056]
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 23057]