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(c. 1840 - ?)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 21, he enlisted 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 was captured, place not given, and a prisoner of war from 14 May 1864 to 9 April 1865. He was mustered out o 27 May 1865.
After the War
At the 1890 US Census of Veterans and Widows, he was living in Schuylkill County, PA.
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 in PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31138]
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 31139]