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I.J. Harvey
(1830 - 1898)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 31 year old jeweler in Philadelphia, he enrolled there and was commissioned First Lieutenant of Company K, 2nd Pennsylvania Reserves on 27 May 1861. He was detailed to the Signal Corps in August 1861.
On the Campaign
On 12 September 1862 he was posted to Point of Rocks, MD. He was "on special duty," place not given, on 20 September.
The rest of the War
By January 1863 he was in the Department of Tennessee and was appointed Captain, Signal Corps, USA on 29 May 1863. By June he was in charge of signal trains at Vicksburg, MS. He retired on 15 February 1864 and mustered out on 30 November 1865.
After the War
In 1880 he was a curb chain (jewelry) maker and lived in his in-laws home in Providence, RI.
References & notes
His basic service from Sypher,1 the Card File,2 and Heitman,3 with details from Brown,4 source also of his picture. Maryland Campaign events from Captain B.F. Fisher's Report. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Ella Josephine Edwards (1851-1925) in February 1880.
Birth
05/24/1830 in VA
Death
03/01/1898; Providence, RI; burial in Philadelphia Memorial Park, Frazer, PA
1 Sypher, Josiah Rhinehart, History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr and Company, 1865, pg. 583 [AotW citation 28711]
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 28712]
3 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, 2 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, Vol. 1, pg. 508 [AotW citation 28713]
4 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. 233; pp. 156, 327, 511, 788 [AotW citation 28714]