(c. 1843 - ?)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 19 year old segar (cigar?) packer in Philadelphia, he enlisted and mustered into service as a Private in Company G (or F), 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 24 February 1862 in Philadelphia.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He as listed as a deserter at Fredericksburg, VA on 11 December 1862.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1843
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 23530]
2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23531]
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, pg. 281 [AotW citation 23532]