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Federal (USV)

Private

John B. Sutton

(c. 1834 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 27, he enlisted and mustered into service as a Private in Company A, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 20 November 1862 in Philadelphia.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the foot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps, date not known.

References & notes

His service from the Card File 1 and Bates.2 Wound detail from Nelson.3

Birth

c. 1834

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 23618]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23619]

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. 407 [AotW citation 23620]

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