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(c. 1835 - ?)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
On 28 May 1861 he enrolled and mustered into service as First Lieutenant of Company G, 71st Pennsylvania Infantry in New York City. He was promoted to Captain on 3 February 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to the left side of his head causing (temporary) loss of vision in both eyes in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was absent recuperating to 16 November, then rejoined his Company. He went on sick leave again on 19 December and resigned due to disability on 7 February 1863, his left eye virtually blind and the right impaired. In April 1865 a pension examiner noted that "he could not read other then the very largest type."
After the War
He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in February 1869.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1835
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31201]
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 31202]
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. 116 [AotW citation 31205]