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Federal (USV)

Private

Morgan Hoffman Pinkerton

(c. 1842 - 1863)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 124th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20, he enlisted on 1 August 1862 in West Chester and mustered as Private, Company D, 124th Pennsylvania Infantry on 8 August in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in Maryland.

The rest of the War

He died, probably of disease, at Aquia Creek, VA on 5 April 1863.

References & notes

His service information from the Register 1 and Bates,2 as M.H. Pinkerton. His presence on the campaign from Corporal Wilkinson's diary, quoted in the History.3 Personal Details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1842; Chester, PA

Death

04/05/1863; Aquia Creek, VA; burial in Hopewell United Methodist Church Cemetery, Downingtown, PA

Notes

1   Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant General's Office, Register of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, 16 volumes, Harrisburg  [AotW citation 23851]

2   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871  [AotW citation 23852]

3   Green, Robert McCay, compiler, History of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion 1862-1863, Philadelphia: Ware Brothers Company, printers, 1907, p. 110  [AotW citation 23853]