Jeremiah Curran

A 30 year year old coal miner, he enlisted and mustered in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, PA on 15 December 1861 as a Private in Company K, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

He was wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He deserted his unit on 8 January 1863 and returned on 9 December 1863. He was a prisoner from 21 August 1864, administratively transferred to Company G, 95th Pennsylvania Infantry at the end of the 96th's term on 21 October 1864, and released from prison on 28 February 1865. He was discharged on 8 May 1865.

In 1880 he was a miner at West Mahoney in Schuylkill County.

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. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Reynolds (1831-1892) in August 1854 and they had 9 children (4 before the war).

04/08/1831; County Laois, IRELAND

03/26/1887; River Run, PA; burial in Saint Joseph's Cemetery, Girardville, PA