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Federal (USV)

Private

John S. Dougherty

(1840 - 1915)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 128th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 22, he enlisted in Doylestown on 8 August 1862 and mustered as Private, Company C, 128th Pennsylvania Infantry on 14 August in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in his left thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a field hospital on the Showman farm near the battlefield and returned to duty. He was captured in action at Chancellorsville, VA on 2 May 1863 and mustered out with his Company on 19 May 1863.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Register.2 Wound and hospital details from Nelson.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1840

Death

1915; burial in Newtown Cemetery, Newtown, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23936]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Published 1995-, first accessed 01 January 2000, <http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/> [AotW citation 23937]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 193 [AotW citation 23938]

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