(1842 - 1920)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A coal miner's son, in 1860 he was a 17 year old laborer living with his Irish-born parents and 3 younger siblings at Hughes in Schuykill County, PA. He enlisted and mustered in Pottsville on 7 November 1861 as a Private in Company K, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his leg, 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 sent back to his company on 22 December 1862. He was transferred to the 95th Pennsylvania Infantry about October 1864 and was discharged at the end of his term of enlistment about 7 November 1864.
After the War
By 1870 he was a coal miner back in Hughes, PA. In 1880 he was a miner at Lattimer in Luzerne County, and by 1900 was an "outside boss" at a mine and lived in the village of Sandy Run in Luzerne County, PA. He had retired at Freeland, PA by 1910.
References & notes
His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as John Prodrick. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Sarah McClellan (1844-) and they had at least 10 children between 1868 and 1884.
Birth
01/23/1842; Schuylkill County, PA
Death
02/22/1920; Freeland, PA; burial in Saint Ann's Parish Cemetery, Freeland, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31097]
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 31098]
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 #119 [AotW citation 31099]