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Federal (USV)

Private

Patrick Fell

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his widowed mother and younger brother Barney at Donaldson in Frailey Township, Schuylkill County, PA. He enlisted there on 11 September 1861 and mustered in Pottsville on 23 September as a Private in Company H, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left hand, 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, transferred to Camp A, and was sent back to his unit on 27 January 1863. He mustered out with his regiment on 21 October 1864 in Philadelphia.

After the War

He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in May 1876.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1843 in IRELAND

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31064]

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 31065]

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 #165 [AotW citation 31066]

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