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Federal (USV)

Private

John O'Donnell

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted and mustered on 26 September 1861 as a Private in Company F, 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 13 November and returned to his unit on 27 January 1863. He mustered out with the regiment on 21 October 1864.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31046]

2 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 #484 [AotW citation 31047]

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