Jacob W. S. Gross

In 1860 he was a 16 year old apprentice living with master wheelwright Aaron Overholt and his family in Frederick, Montgomery County, PA. On 14 September 1861, by then a coach painter, he gave his age as 20 and enlisted in Montgomery County, and he mustered into service on 23 September in Pottsville as a Private in Company H, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot, probably in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 19 September and transferred out, place not given, on 28 September 1862. He reenlisted on 1 January 1864 at Brandy Station, VA and transferred to Company G, 95th Pennsylvania Infantry (when the 96th mustered out) on 18 October 1864. He mustered out with his regiment on 17 July 1865.

He may have been living in Philadelphia in 1870, but by 1880 he was a hotel keeper in Upper Providence, Montgomery County. He was living there at the 1890 US Veterans' Census and in 1900 was in the "country hotel" business at Collegeville, PA. By 1910 he had retired and lived in Trappe, PA.

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as Jacob S. Gross.

He married Elizabeth H "Lizzie" Beitenman (1845-1934) in 1869 and they had 2 daughters.

10/08/1843; Montgomery County, PA

1922; burial in Augustus Lutheran Church Cemetery, Trappe, PA