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Federal (USV)

Private

John Elder

(c. 1831 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 100th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 30, he enlisted on 27 August 1861 in Eastbrook and mustered as Private, Company F, 100th Pennsylvania Infantry on 31 August at Camp Wilkins near Pittsburgh.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 16 September 1862.

References & notes

Service from Bates,1 who says he was killed outright on 16 September, and the Card File.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1831

Death

09/16/1862; in MD; burial in Elder Cemetery, Harlansburg, PA

Notes

1   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871  [AotW citation 23689]

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 23690]