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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

Samuel Jefferson Book

(1839 - 1901)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 100th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 21 year old teacher in Butler County, he enrolled and mustered into service as 2nd Lieutenant of Company E, 100th Pennsylvania Infantry on 31 August 1861 in Pittsburgh. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 15 February 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot through a lung in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was probably treated at a field hospital near the battlefield and was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 28 October. He was furloughed from the hospital on 22 November and discharged for wounds on 21 January 1863.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

11/30/1839; Butler County, PA

Death

03/24/1901; Tullahoma, TN; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Tullahoma, TN

Notes

1   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871  [AotW citation 23680]

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 23681]

3   National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #5.365  [AotW citation 23682]