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(? - 1863)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 10th Pennsylvania Reserves
see his Battle Report
Before Antietam
Likely from Mercer, Pennsylvania, he entered service as First Sergeant, Company G of the 10th Reserves on 19 June 1861. He was promoted to Ist Lieutenant on 10 May and Captain of the Company on 17 May 1862.
On the Campaign
He assumed command of the Regiment at Antietam on the 17th as senior officer present, in relief of Lieutenant Colonel Warner.
The rest of the War
He died 6 January 1863 of wounds received in action at Fredericksburg (Va) on 13 December 1862.
References & notes
Service data from Bates 1
Death
01/06/1863
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, muster roll, Co. G, 10th PA Reserves [AotW citation 139]