John Broderick

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.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his leg, probably 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 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.

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.

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.

01/23/1842; Schuylkill County, PA

02/22/1920; Freeland, PA; burial in Saint Ann's Parish Cemetery, Freeland, PA