Anthony Fisher

In 1860 he was a 16 year old watchmaker's son living with his parents and younger brother in Tremont Township, Schuylkill County, PA. He enlisted there and mustered in Pottsville on 21 October 1861 as a Private in Company H, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his body (trunk), 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 A in Frederick, MD on 13 November and sent on to York, PA, date not given. He transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps on 15 November 1863 and was discharged on 22 October 1864 at the end of his term of enlistment.

By 1870 he was back in Tremont and was a barber there to his death in 1910. He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability on February 1875.

His service basics from Bates,1 with details from his pension card, via fold3. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1910 (the 1900 Census has his birth in May 1846), and the 1890 US Veteran's Census. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

c. 1844; Baden, GERMANY

08/07/1910; Philadelphia, PA; burial in Saint Peter's Evangelical and Reformed Cemetery, Tremont, PA