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Federal (USV)

Private

Boyd S. Cammel

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 23 year old miner, he enlisted and mustered at Pottsville, PA on 27 February 1862 as a Private in Company I, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot, 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 18 November. He was listed as a deserter on 6 June 1863.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as Boyd S. Cameron.

Birth

c. 1839 in ENGLAND

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31029]

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 31030]

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 #46 [AotW citation 31031]

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