John G. Farrell

Age 24, a teamster, he enlisted on 15 September 1861 and mustered on 23 September in Pottsville as a Private in Company K, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right thigh in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital (GH) at Camp A in Frederick, MD convalescing and with typhoid fever on 1 December 1862, transferred to GH #1 there on 6 March 1863, and was returned to his unit on 19 March. He deserted on 15 July 1863 but returned on 18 March 1864. He transferred to Company G, 95th Pennsylvania Infantry on 18 October 1864 as the 96th Infantry mustered out, and was discharged on 2 June 1865.

In 1880 he was a miner living at Pottsville, and 1890 in Minersville. He died after being hit by a train while riding in a carriage.

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; wound detail from the 1890 US Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War. Hospital information from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Catherine Bambrick (1851-1917) and they had at least 5 children by 1885.

c. 1837 in IRELAND

10/17/1897; Pottsville, PA; burial in Saint Vincent de Paul Cemetery #1, Minersville, PA