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Federal (USV)

Private

Edwin Moyer

(c. 1843 - 1864)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, a miner, he enlisted at Lykens, PA and mustered in Pottsville, PA on 23 September 1861 as a Private in Company G, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 ...

Ed. Moyer took a prisoner and gave him to the Colonel.

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 15 February 1864 at Brandy Station, VA and was promoted to Corporal, date not given. He was killed at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 10 May 1864.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 His actions at Crampton's Gap from Captain Haas' wartime diary.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

05/10/1864; Spotsylvania Court House, VA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 30883]

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 30884]

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