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Federal (USV)

Private

Francis Harris

(c. 1830 - 1907)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 30 year old coal miner living with his mother Mary and brothers James and John at Llewellyn in Branch Township, Schuylkill County, PA. He enlisted in Pottsville on 27 August 1861 giving his age as 25, and mustered there on 23 September 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 was discharged there on a Surgeon's Certificate of 22 or 23 December 1862. He began receiving a veteran's pension in April 1863.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 with details from his pension card, via fold3. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3

Birth

c. 1830 in IRELAND

Death

10/11/1907

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31048]

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 31049]

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 #485 [AotW citation 31050]

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