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Federal (USV)

Private

Peter McAnany

(c. 1840 - 1884)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, a laborer, he enlisted and mustered in Pottsville on 10 October 1861 as a Private in Company I, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right thigh, 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, detailed as a nurse on 25 October, and sent on to Baltimore on 7 March 1863. He was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps, date not given.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 which says he was born in Ireland. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as Peter McAnniny. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has his birth in Pottsville.

Birth

c. 1840 in IRELAND

Death

05/08/1884; burial in Old Saint Joseph's Cemetery, Frackville, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31083]

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 31084]

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 #164 [AotW citation 31085]

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