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(1837 - 1912)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Of Scottish parents, he enlisted in Porter Township, Schuylkill County, PA and mustered in Pottsville on 26 September 1861 as a Private in Company H, 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 was discharged there on a Surgeon's Certificate of 23 December 1862. He began receiving a veterans pension in March 1863.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a laborer in Porter Township, PA. In 1900 he was listed as a "gentleman" boarding with his sister Isabella (Powell) and her family there. In 1910, then age 72, he was living alone, still in Porter Township.
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 as a Sergeant. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Catherine "Cassie" Houtz (1841-1883) and they had 7 children between 1861 and 1880.
Birth
07/02/1837; Norwegian Township, Schuylkill County, PA
Death
05/15/1912; Sugar Grove, IL; burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Tower City, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31051]
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 31052]
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 #199 [AotW citation 31053]