David William Jenkins

He came to America with his family sometime after 1851, when he was about 11 years old. In April 1861, then a 21 year old coal miner in St. Clair, Schuylkill County, PA, he enlisted there and mustered in Harrisburg on 30 April 1861 as a Private in Company B, 14th Pennsylvania Infantry for 3 months' service. He mustered out with them on 7 August. He enlisted again, at Tremont, PA, and mustered in Pottsville on 26 September 1861 as a Private in Company H, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

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

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 24 October, transferred to Camp A, and was discharged there for disability on 30 December 1862. He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in March 1863.

By November 1864 he was in Ohio and in 1870 was a retail merchant with a store at Hubbard in Trumbull County, OH. He returned east about 1873 and in 1880 was again mining coal, in Tioga County, PA. By 1900 he had retired and lived in Anita, PA.

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as a Sergeant. Personal details from family genealogists, the England and Wales Census of 1851, and the US Census of 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave, and has his birth at Cardiff, Wales; his obituary transcription there says he rejoined his regiment and served from Gettysburg to Petersburg, discharged for disability on 30 December 1864 - this is not found in his military record.

He married Hannah Davis (1842-1934) in about 1859 and they had 9 children.

03/22/1840; Carmarthenshire, WALES

04/16/1908; Anita, PA; burial in Anita Cemetery, Anita, PA