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Federal (USV)

Private

Joseph Parkhill

(c. 1827 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 34, he enlisted and mustered into service as a Private in Company D, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 12 December 1861 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 was listed as "not accounted for" on the Company muster-out roll.

References & notes

His service from the Card File,1 as Joseph Parkill, and Bates.2 Wound detail from Nelson.3

He may be the man who died 16 October 1880 and was buried in Hampton National Cemetery.

Birth

c. 1827

Notes

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 23584]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23585]

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. 345 [AotW citation 23586]

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