Davis M. Mellon

In 1860, by then an orphan, he was 15 years old and lived with laborer William Glanding and family in Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA. He enlisted there for three years on 26 September 1861, giving his age as 18, and mustered into service the same date at Pottsville as a Private in Company H, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

He suffered a gunshot to his right foot, probably in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital (GH) at Camp A in Frederick, MD on 4 October, transferred to GH #1 in Frederick on 5 March 1863, and was sent on to Baltimore on 18 April. He transferred to the Invalid (Veteran Reserve) Corps on 15 November 1863.

By 1870 he was a sewing machine sales agent living again with the Glandings in Tremont, PA. In 1880, still selling sewing machines, he had his own household there. By 1900 and to at least 1910 he was a pension attorney/agent in Pottsville.

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as David Mellon. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

11/29/1844; Schuylkill Haven, PA

02/08/1913; Pottsville, PA; burial in Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, PA