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(c. 1844 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A worker in Anthony B Bohem's silk factory in Philadelphia, PA, he enlisted in that city on 27 September 1861 and mustered, also in Philadelphia, on 31 October as a Private in Company K (or R), 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Antietam by a gunshot to his head on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His widowed mother Bridget, who had relied on him for financial support as her only child, applied for a US pension based on his service which was granted in April 1863. She received that to her death in 1886.
References & notes
He is not found in the standard references: Bates1 or the Card File.2 Nor is he found in Banes' Roll of the Dead.3 His service from a statement by the US Army Adjutant General's Office to the US Pension Commissioner dated 22 December 1862, part of his mother's pension application, online from fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Jim Buchanan for the pointer to Private Carlin.
Birth
c. 1844 in IRELAND
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Cathedral Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 32394]
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 32395]
3 Banes, Charles H., History of the Philadelphia Brigade. Sixty-ninth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and One hundred and sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers , Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1876 [AotW citation 32396]