Andrew Glennon

He came to America with his parents as a young boy, in about 1845. In 1860 he was a 23 year old mine worker living with his parents and 4 younger siblings in New Castle Township, Schuylkill County, PA. He enlisted in Pottsville on 18 September and mustered on 23 September 1861 as a Private in Company F, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot, probably in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 13 November and returned to his unit on 2 January 1863. He was listed as a deserter from the 96th in October 1863, but had enlisted in Frederick on 26 January 1863 as a Private in Battery L of the 5th United States Artillery.

He almost immediately deserted from the Battery, then at Washington, DC. He was captured there soon after and held at City Point, VA to July, but deserted again on 17 (or 23) August 1863. He was (administratively) mustered out at the end of his previous term of service, in October 1864.

He returned to US Army service a decade after he'd left his battery, on 17 September 1873, but deserted yet again, not quite a month later, on 10 October 1871.

His volunteer service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as Andrew Glennan. His US Army service from the Registers.4 Personal details from the US Census of 1860 (as Glennen) and the Records of Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, also as Andrew Glennan; his stone contracted in August 1880 or 1886. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

c. 1838 in IRELAND

05/14/1875; burial in Saint Joseph Cemetery, Mahanoy City, PA