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(c. 1837 - 1868)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 24 year old clerk in Luzerne County, he enlisted there and mustered in Harrisburg on 9 September 1861 as First Sergeant of Company I, 56th Pennsylvania Infantry. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 2 April 1862.
On the Campaign
He was with his regiment on the Maryland Campaign of 1862, probably serving as Adjutant by 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 11 May 1863 to date from 24 November 1862. He was commissioned Captain on 26 December 1864, but was not mustered at that rank, and was discharged on 7 January 1865.
References & notes
His service from Bates1 and the Card File2 both as Samuel Healey. His presence on the Campaign from his Diary now in the collection of the Lackawanna Historical Society, with a copy at the Gettysburg National Military Park library, pointer from Hartwig.3 Personal details from family genealogists and US Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Florence Eugenia Watres (1844-1919) in about 1865 and they had a son Louis (1866-1952).
Birth
c. 1837
Death
05/13/1868; Dunmore, PA; burial in Dunmore Cemetery, Dunmore, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 29999]
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 30000]
3 Hartwig, D. Scott, To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012, p. 169, n. 22 [AotW citation 30001]