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(c. 1837 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 24, 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 mustered put with them on 23 July. He enlisted again and mustered in Pottsville on 22 August 1861 as a Corporal in Company A, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died at Bakersville, MD on 29 October 1862, at the camp of the regiment, probably from disease, but possibly related to his wounding.
References & notes
His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 His wounding from a casualty list provided by Colonel Cake and printed in the Pottsville Miner's Journal of 4 October 1862.
Birth
c. 1837
Death
10/29/1862; Bakersville, MD
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31125]
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 31126]