Calvin McClurg

Son of a hotel keeper, in 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his parents and 2 younger siblings at Harrisburg in Derry Township, Dauphin County, PA. He enlisted at Harrisburg (or Middletown), PA on 1 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 6th Pennsylvania Reserves.

He was slightly wounded in the right hip at Antietam on 17 September 1862, probably in action in or near the infamous Cornfield on the Miller farm there.

He was treated at the Stone House field hospital on the Samuel Poffenberger farm at Sharpsburg. He was promoted to Corporal on 15 April 1863, reenlisted on 21 December 1863 at Nokesville, VA, and transferred to the 191st Pennsylvania Infantry as a Sergeant in Company F the next day. He mustered out with them at Arlington Heights, VA on 28 June 1865.

By 1870 he was a carpenter back in Harrisburg but in 1880 was a farmer and carpenter in Chickasaw County, IA. By 1900 he was a carpenter in Minneapolis, MN. He was admitted to the Soldier's Home in Milwaukee, WI on 12 February 1900 and was discharged just over a year later in March 1901. In 1905 he was still a carpenter, and he and his wife lived with their son William on Newton Street in Minneapolis. He was readmitted to the Home in Milwaukee on 31 July 1905 but left the Home on 18 July 1906 and died in December of that year at age 63.

His service basics from Bates,1 also as Calvin McClung, with details from the Registers.2 Wound and hospital details from Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1900, and the Minnesota Census of 1905. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Further personal details and his picture, from a photograph passed down in the family to him from McClurg's granddaughter Evelyn Anderson, provided by great-great grandson John Durand.

He married Sarah Ann Ehrisman (1844-1913) in February 1864 and they had 9 children, 2 of whom died young, per the family bible.

04/24/1843; Dauphin County, PA

12/06/1906; burial in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, MN