(1839 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 21, he enlisted on 10 July 1861 in Georgetown and mustered into service as Private, Company B, 6th Pennsylvania Reserves on 27 July in Washington, DC.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain, MD, on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of his wounds on 1 October 1862 in a hospital in Middletown, MD.
Birth
09/25/1839
Death
10/01/1862; Middletown, MD; burial in Stone Valley Cemetery, Hickory Corners, PA
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 23697]