John Lannen

Age 30, he enlisted at St. Clair in Schuykill County, PA and mustered in Harrisburg on 24 April 1861 as a Private in Company H of the 9th Pennsylvania Infantry for 3 months' service. He mustered out with them on 29 July. He enlisted again and mustered in Pottsville on 14 October 1861 as a Private in Company I, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his arm above the elbow 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 12 October, and transferred out, date not given. He mustered out on 15 October 1864 "in the field" in Virginia at the end of his term of service.

He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in November 1880. He was a laborer living in Shamokin, Northumberland County, PA with wife Bridget before he was admitted to the Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton, OH on 8 May 1886. He transferred to the Home at Sawtell near Los Angeles, CA on 4 May 1889 and moved again, to the branch in Hampton, VA on 1 July 1890. He was discharged 3 weeks later, possibly for cause, but readmitted on 17 August 1892. Discharged again, at his own request, on 21 April 1893, he was probably again a resident in the Hampton home at his death in 1897.

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 also as John Lerman. Hospital details from the Patient List,3 as John Leonard, hit in the head. Personal details from the Registers 4 and his pension card via fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

c. 1831; County Roscommon, IRELAND

03/12/1897; Hampton, VA; burial in Hampton National Cemetery, Hampton, VA