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(1827 - 1863)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 10th Pennsylvania Reserves
see his Battle Report
Before Antietam
From Mercer County, PA, he enlisted as First Sergeant of Company G, 10th Pennsylvania Reserves on 19 June 1861. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 10 May 1862 and Captain of the Company on 17 May.
On the Campaign
He assumed command of the regiment at Antietam on 17 September 1862 as senior officer present, in relief of Lieutenant Colonel Warner, who was wounded in action there at about 8 a.m. He was relieved by Captain McDaniel, Company D, later that afternoon.
The rest of the War
He died on 6 January 1863 in the Seminary Hospital in Georgetown, DC of wounds received in action at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862.
References & notes
Birth
1827; Mercer County, PA
Death
01/06/1863; Georgetown, DC; burial in Mercer Citizens Cemetery, Mercer, PA
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]