(1844 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
About age 17, he mustered into service as Private, Company B, 51st Pennsylvania Infantry, date not known.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He did of wounds on 30 September 1862.
References & notes
He's not found in Bates' History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, the Pennsylvania Adjutant-General's Veterans' Card File, or Parker's History of the 51st regiment of P.V. and V.V.. His name is among those listed as killed on the south side of the regiment's monument near the Burnside Bridge on the battlefield (as having been previously omitted from the north face). His gravesite is on Findagrave.
More on the Web
The two monuments on the battlefield of Antietam to the 51st Pennsylvania Infantry are online from Steve A. Hawks on Stone Sentinels.
Birth
03/02/1844
Death
09/30/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Easton Cemetery, Easton, PA