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Federal (USV)

Private

Michael Callaghan

(c. 1819 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 42, from Schuylkill County, PA, he enlisted on 13 September 1861 in Pottsville and mustered there on 23 September as a Private in Company I, 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 discharged on a Surgeon's Certificate of Disability on 10 December 1862.

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. 1819

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31143]

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 31144]

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