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(1837 - 1917)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 25 year old stonemason in Chester County, he enlisted on 22 July 1862 in West Chester and mustered as Private, Company G, 124th Pennsylvania Infantry on 12 August in Harrisburg.
On the Campaign
He was listed as a deserter at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He enlisted again, in Philadelphia on 15 January 1864 and mustered as Private, Company B, 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry on 1 February 1864. He mustered out with that Company on 16 July 1865.
After the War
At the 1880 US Census he was a prisoner in the Chester County jail. Still making his living as a mason, he was in West Caln Township, Chester County in 1900.
References & notes
Birth
07/16/1837 in PA
Death
09/14/1917; Parkesburg, PA; burial in Upper Octorara Church Cemetery, Parkesburg, PA