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(c. 1828 - ?)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 33, he enlisted in Pittsburgh on 14 June 1861 and mustered into service as a Private in Company H, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry on 11 July in Philadelphia.
On the Campaign
He was with his company at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability at Washington, DC on 7 January 1863.
References & notes
His service from the Card File.1 His presence at Antietam from research in his pension file kindly shared by Damian Shiels; he received his US pension in Ireland.
More on the Web
Much more about US military pensions paid in Ireland may be found on Damian's Yankee Pensioners in Ireland 1845-1905: An Interactive Map.
Birth
c. 1828 in IRELAND
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 33965]