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Federal (USV)

Private

Francis Boland

(c. 1826 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 35, he enlisted and mustered in Pottsville on 1 October 1861 as a Private in Company I, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his company at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862, where he tended to the mortally wounded Barney McMichael of Company K.

The rest of the War

He was listed as a deserter on 30 March 1864.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 His presence at Crampton's Gap from Ward,3 quoting a letter he wrote home in September 1862.

Birth

c. 1826

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31127]

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 31128]

3 Ward, David A., The 96th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2018, pp. 114, 296 (n. 43) [AotW citation 31129]

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