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Federal (USV)

Private

Franklin Fenstermacher

(c. 1827 - 1879)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 50th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 34 year old boatman from Schuylkill Haven, PA, he enlisted there and mustered into service in Harrisburg as a Private in Company C, 50th Pennsylvania Infantry on 9 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His arm was amputated. He was discharged for wounds on 26 September 1863 at Carver Hospital in Washington, DC.

After the War

He returned to Schuykill Haven, then was a resident of the Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Dayton, OH from 17 May 1875 to 30 June 1876.

References & notes

Basic information from Bates1 and his Veteran's Card.2 His wounding at Antietam and other personal details from the Registers.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1827; Pottsville, PA

Death

06/13/1879; burial in Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31135]

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 31136]

3 US Department of Veterans Affairs, Registers of the United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938, Washington, DC: US National Archives and Records Administration, 1938 [AotW citation 31137]

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