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R.P. Craven

R.P. Craven

Federal (USV)

Corporal

Richard P. Craven

(c. 1838 - 1864)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 100th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, he mustered as Corporal, Company K, 100th Pennsylvania Infantry on 31 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was commissioned First Lieutenant on 2 October 1862. He was killed in action at the Crater near Petersburg, VA on 30 July 1864.

References & notes

Service from Bates1 and the Register.2 His picture from a photo in the MOLLUS Massachusetts Collection by way of the Historical Data Systems database.

Birth

c. 1838

Death

07/30/1864; Petersburg, VA

Notes

1   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871  [AotW citation 23687]

2   Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant General's Office, Register of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, 16 volumes, Harrisburg  [AotW citation 23688]