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(1831 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 30 year old carpenter from Chester, PA, he enrolled on 31 May 1861 and mustered into service as 2nd Lieutenant of Company C, First Pennsylvania Reserves on 5 September 1861.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.
References & notes
Birth
01/02/1831; Chester, PA
Death
09/14/1862; Turner's Gap, MD; burial in Chester Rural Cemetery, Chester, PA
1 Sypher, Josiah Rhinehart, History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr and Company, 1865, pg. 566 [AotW citation 28763]
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 28764]