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(1840 - 1914)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 20 year old engineer in St Clair, Schuylkill County, PA. He enlisted and mustered on 2 October 1861 in Pottsville, PA as a Private in Company E, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.
On the Campaign
He suffered a gunshot wound through a lung, probably in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital (GH) at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 16 November and was returned to his unit on 19 February 1863. He transferred to the 64th Company, 2nd Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps on 21 September 1863.
After the War
He began receiving a disability pension in January 1868. By 1880, still unmarried, he was a 40 year old laborer living with his mother and step-father in Schuylkill Township. In 1900 he was a day laborer in Walker, PA
References & notes
His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 which also mentions an amputation (?). Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, 1880, and 1900, and his pension record card, online from fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Reagan (1844-1931) in 1880 and they had a daughter Alice.
Birth
05/23/1840; Tuscarora, PA
Death
08/10/1914; Tuscaroroa, PA; burial in New Saint Jerome's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Tamaqua, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 30997]
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 30998]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #558 [AotW citation 30999]