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(1840 - 1881)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 21 year old farmer, he enlisted in Warren County, PA on 26 May 1861 and mustered into service as a Private in Company D, 13th Pennsylvania Reserves on 29 May in Harrisburg.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot which shattered the head of his humerus (upper arm bone) in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
Surgeon G.C. Humphreys of the 9th New York Infantry removed the head and two inches of the humerus on 18 September, probably at the Locust Spring field hospital near Keedysville, MD. He was transferred to the US Army General Hospital at Camp B in Frederick, ND on 3 January 1863 and was discharged there for wounds on 7 March 1863.
After the War
In May 1874 a pension examiner noted that he had a "moderately useful arm for some purposes, but useless for his occupation." In 1880 he was a railroad brakeman living in Blair County, PA.
References & notes
His service from Sypher 1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR 3 and the Patient List.4 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Margaret Norris (1840-1916) and they had 4 sons then a daughter between 1866 and 1878.
Birth
1840 in PA
Death
1881; Blair County, PA; burial in Fairview Cemetery, Altoona, PA
1 Sypher, Josiah Rhinehart, History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr and Company, 1865, p. 714 [AotW citation 33088]
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 33089]
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 2, p. 578 [AotW citation 33090]
4 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #1.241 [AotW citation 33091]