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J.A. Hebrew
(c. 1832 - 1894)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 28 year old bookkeeper in Philadelphia, PA. He enlisted and mustered there on 8 August 1861 as Sergeant, Company G, 99th Pennsylvania Infantry. He was commissioned First Lieutenant on 1 February 1862 and detailed to the Signal Corps in March 1862, assigned to the First Army Corps, Army of the Potomac.
On the Campaign
On 4 September 1862 he was at Fairfax Seminary, VA but by 10 September he was on the march in Maryland, at Barnesville, with Captain Fisher. On the 13th he was on South Mountain in sight of Frederick, and on 18 September he was on the battlefield of Antietam. He was sent to Sugarloaf Mountain on the 20th.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Captain of Company C on 1 December 1862. He was at Fredericksburg, VA later that month and helped direct artillery fire there. He was discharged on a Surgeon's Certificate of Disability on 19 September 1864.
After the War
By 1880 he was a government clerk in Washington, DC.
References & notes
His basic service from Bates1 and the Card File,2 with details from Brown,3 source also of his picture. Maryland Campaign events from Captain B.F. Fisher's Report. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Phebe Thompson (c1835-1875) about 1856 and they had 5 children. He married again, Ida Lucille M (?, 1840-1889) in 1877.
Birth
c. 1832 in IRELAND
Death
12/09/1894; Washington, DC; burial in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 28687]
2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 28688]
3 Brown, J. Willard, The Signal Corps, U.S.A. in the War of the Rebellion, Boston: U.S. Veteran Signal Corps Association, 1896, before pg. 321; pp. 292, 346, 790 [AotW citation 28689]