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(? - 1909)
Home State: New Jersey
Command Billet: Company Commander
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant, 3rd United States Infantry on 23 March 1861 and promoted to First Lieutenant on 14 May 1861. He was first in action at Yorktown in April and May 1862, on the rest of the Peninsula Campaign, and at 2nd Bull Run in August.
On the Campaign
He commanded Company H of the Third US Infantry at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was at Fredericksburg in December, promoted to Captain on 9 February 1863, and honored by brevet to Major for his actions at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863.
After the War
He continued in the Regular Army and was transferred to the 24th US Infantry on 1 January 1871. He resigned on 5 January 1877.
References & notes
Birth
Date not known in PA
Death
08/28/1909; burial in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
1 Hartman, David W., and David Coles, compilers, Biographical Rosters of Florida's Confederate and Union Soldiers, 1861-1865, 6 volumes, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1995, Vol. 1, pg. 881 [AotW citation 29107]
2 Henry, Guy Vernor, Military Record of Civilian Appointments in the United States Army, 2 Volumes, New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1873, Vol. 2, pp. 186-187 [AotW citation 29108]
3 Reese, Timothy J., Sykes' Regular Infantry Division, 1861-1864: A History of Regular United States Infantry Operations in the Civil War's Eastern Theater, Jefferson (NC): McFarland&Company, Inc., 1990, pg. 385 [AotW citation 29109]