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(1807 - 1863)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
About age 55, he enlisted in Reading on 7 August 1862 and mustered as Private, Company H, 128th Pennsylvania Infantry on 15 August in Harrisburg.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in his left foot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the Academy hospital in Chambersburg, PA and was discharged on 16 January 1863 for disability.
After the War
He died later the same year.
References & notes
Birth
07/25/1807
Death
12/19/1863; burial in Eplers Church Cemetery, Leesport, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23970]
2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant General's Office, Register of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, 16 volumes, Harrisburg [AotW citation 23971]
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. 319 [AotW citation 23972]