Patrick Scanlon

Age 32 at enlistment, he mustered in as private, Company I, on October 11, 1861. Transferred to Company G on January 1, 1862.

He was wounded in action, body, on 17 September 1862.

He was again wounded in action, seriously, thigh, on December 13, 1862, at Fredericksburg, Va. He died of his wounds on January 14, 1863, at Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D. C. He appears in the Fredericksburg casualty list as corporal.

Basic information from McLernon1. Pension Record: Widow, filed March 17, 1865. He is buried in Soldier's and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, Washington, D. C., Section H Grave Number 2673

01/14/1863; Washington, DC; burial in Soldier's and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, Was