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Federal (USV)

Private

Richard Brennen

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted and mustered at Pottsville, PA on 22 August 1861 as a Private in Company A, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot in his side, 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 at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 24 October and returned to his unit on 17 November. Three days later he was discharged to enlist in the US Regular Army. He enrolled in Washington, DC as a Private in Company B, 2nd United States Cavalry and was discharged at the end of his term of enlistment on 18 August 1864.

References & notes

His volunteer service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as Richard Brennan. US service from the Registers.4

Birth

c. 1839; Pottsville, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31024]

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 31025]

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 #130 [AotW citation 31026]

4 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 141, p. 93 [AotW citation 31027]

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