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(c. 1843 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
An 18 year old farmer in East Brook, he enlisted in Princeton, PA on 27 August 1861 and mustered into service as Private, Company F, 100th Pennsylvania Infantry on 31 August at Camp Wilkins near Pittsburgh.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action by a gunshot to the head at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1843
Death
09/14/1862; Fox's Gap, MD; burial in Hermon-Union Cemetery, Princeton, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23675]
2 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 23676]