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(c. 1835 - 1886)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Going by Peter, he enlisted in Allegheny County, PA on 1 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 9th Pennsylvania Reserves on 28 June 1861 in Washington, DC.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated in hospitals in Fredrick, MD and Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, PA. He was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps on 15 February 1864.
After the War
In September 1873 pension examiners in Pittsburgh noted that
the ball entered his right buttock and passed across to the left side, opening the urethra, and coming out on the inner side of the left thigh. He is obliged to use a catheter continually. His disability continues as total.
References & notes
His service basics from the Card File 1 as Peter Lins; he's also seen in Army records as Peter Linz and Lintz. Personal details from his Pension Card, online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Eliza Heck (1843-1912) and they had a son John Peter Lins (1867-1918).
Birth
c. 1835
Death
09/21/1886; burial in Union Dale Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA
1 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 32061]
2 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 2, p. 351 [AotW citation 32062]