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Federal (USV)

Private

John Holan

(c. 1836 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 25, he enlisted and mustered on 1 October 1861 in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, PA as a Private in Company K, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and was listed as a deserter the next day.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates,1 as John Hollin, 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. 1836

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31149]

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 31150]

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