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(c. 1828 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He came to America with his wife and 2 children in 1855 and in 1860 was a 32 year old gardener in Philadelphia. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company A, 118th Pennsylvania Infantry on 13 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot that broke his thigh bone in action at Botelor's Ford on the Potomac River near SHepherdstown, VA on 20 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was probably treated in the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting farm near Keedysville, then transferred to the hospital in the German Reformed Church in the town of Sharpsburg about 6 October. He died there of his wounds on 8 November 1862.
References & notes
His service from Smith1 and Bates.2 Hospital and wound details from Nelson3 and a list of Cases of Gunshot fractured femurs at Battle of Antietam by Surgeon Truman Squire, 89th New York Infantry. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave; originally buried at Mt Moriah in Philadelphia, moved to Ivy Hill in 1881.
He married Ann Coomber/Comber (c. 1829-1898) in May 1850 in England and they had 3 children; the first two born in England, the youngest, William was born in Philadelphia in 1859.
Birth
c. 1828; Reigate, Surrey, ENGLAND
Death
11/08/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Ivy Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
1 Smith, John L., and Survivor's Association, History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 2nd Edition, Philadelphia: J.L. Smith, Map Publisher, 1905, pp. 681 - 683 [AotW citation 1949]
2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 30493]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 61 [AotW citation 30494]