(c. 1839 - ?)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 22 year old farmer, he enlisted and mustered as Private, Company H, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 15 November 1861 in Philadelphia.
On the Campaign
He was missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was listed as a deserter on 23 December 1862 at White Oak Church, VA.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1839; Monroe County, PA
1 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 23508]
2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23509]
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 [AotW citation 23510]