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(c. 1835 - 1912)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 25, he enlisted on 13 September 1861 and mustered in Pottsville on 23 Setpember as a Private in Company I, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his 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 discharged there for disability on 5 March 1863.
After the War
By 1880 he was a furnace filler in Youngstown, OH and in 1900 was a railroad flagman there. In 1910 he had retired and was living with his son Thom and his family in Redstone, Fayette County, PA.
References & notes
His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 both as Mannus McCaffrey. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as Mannis McCaffry. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has his birth in 1840, his memorial says 20 June 1838.
He married Nancy Kennan/Kinnane (1846-1904) and they had 7 children.
Birth
c. 1835 in IRELAND
Death
03/10/1912; Redstone, PA; burial in Saint Mary's Cemetery, New Castle, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31086]
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 31087]
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 #118 [AotW citation 31088]