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(1840 - 1907)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
An 20 year old printer in Mifflinburg, he enlisted and mustered in Harrisburg on 20 April 1861 as a Private in Company C of the 4th Pennsylvania Infntry - a 3 moth unit. He mustered out with them on 27 July. He enlsited again, on 8 September 1861 in Mifflinburg, and mustered into service in Harrisburg as a Private in Company E, 51st Pennsylvania Infantry on 23 September. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his head with bruising and denudation (skin ripped off) of his right parietal (side of skull) bone in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was returned to his unit on 17 June 1863. He transferred to Company H on 18 April 1864 and was discharged at the end of his term of enlistment on 22 September 1864.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was again a printer in Mifflinburg.
References & notes
Birth
10/04/1840 in PA
Death
09/18/1907; Mifflinburg, PA; burial in Mifflinburg Cemetery, Mifflinburg, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31172]
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 31173]
3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 95 [AotW citation 31174]