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(c. 1840 - 1864)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 21, 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 out with them on 23 July. He enlisted again and mustered in Pottsville on 22 August 1861 as 2nd Sergeant of 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 was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 26 October 1862. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 1 March 1863 and to Captain on 1 May 1864. He was mortally wounded at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 10 May 1864 and died on 14 May 1864.
References & notes
His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 His wounding in Maryland from a casualty list provided by Colonel Cake and printed in the Pottsville Miner's Journal of 4 October 1862.
Birth
c. 1840
Death
05/14/1864; Spotsylvania County, VA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31131]
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 31132]