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(c. 1841 - ?)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 19 year old laborer living with his parents and 6 siblings at Schuykill Haven, PA. He enlisted and mustered in Pottsville on 22 August 1861 as a Private 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 was listed as missing in action at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 10 May 1864 with no later military record.
References & notes
His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 also as E. Fenstermacker. His wounding in Maryland from a casualty list provided by Colonel Cake and printed in the Pottsville Miner's Journal of 4 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
Birth
c. 1841; Pottsville, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31133]
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 31134]