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(1841 - 1914)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 19 year old worker living with his parents and 2 siblings on their modest farm at Jackson, Susquehanna County, PA. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company K, 6th Pennsylvania Reserves on 23 April 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the face (and possibly forearm) in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, his frontal (skull) bone was fractured, his left eye was destroyed, and he was partially deaf in his left ear.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the Stone House field hospital on the Samuel Poffenberger Farm then in Washington, DC, and was discharged for disability from wounds on 3 November 1862.
After the War
By 1870 he was again farming on his parent's place in Jackson. From 1873 to 1877 he was raised livestock in Colorado, but afterward returned to Pennsylvania and was a farmer on his own place in Jackson to at least 1910.
References & notes
Birth
01/18/1841; Gibson, PA
Death
11/22/1914; Thompson, PA; burial in North Jackson Cemetery, Jackson Township, Susquehanna County, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31365]
2 Sypher, Josiah Rhinehart, History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr and Company, 1865, p. 633 [AotW citation 31366]
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. 333 [AotW citation 31367]
4 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 129 [AotW citation 31368]