Frank W. Simpson

Giving his age as 19, occupation tin smith, he enlisted in Pottsville and mustered in Harrisburg on 18 April 1861 as a Private in the National Light Infantry - Company D of the 25th Pennsylvania Infantry - for 3 months' service. He enlisted again and mustered in Pottsville on 22 August 1861 as First Sergeant of Company A, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

He was with his company in Maryland.

He reenlisted on 14 February 1864 and was commissioned First Lieutenant on 1 May. He transferred to Company E of the 95th Pennsylvania Infantry on 18 October 1864, when the 96th mustered out, and was wounded at Cedar Creek, VA the next day. He was commissioned Captain, but not mustered at that rank, and was discharged for disability from wounds on 17 May 1865. He began receiving a veteran's disability pension the same month.

By 1870 he was a railroad employee in Pottsville. By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a locomotive engineer living in Olyphant and Blakely in Lackawanna County, PA.

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 also as F.W. Simpson. His presence on the Maryland Campaign from Ward,3 citing Simpson's 19 September 1862 letter as published in the Pottsville Miner's Journal of 4 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from the Ronn Palm Collection, this copy provided by David A Ward.

He married Ann Howell (1844-1885) in about 1864 and they had 2 children.

01/08/1844; Pottsville, PA

11/19/1907; Blakely, PA; burial in Forest Hill Cemetery, Dunmore, PA