Samuel Lippincott Fullwood

A 24 year old telegrapher in Pittsburg, PA, he enrolled there on 3 September 1861 and mustered as Captain of Company M, 102nd Pennsylvania Infantry on 15 September.

He was with his regiment in Maryland and arrived on the Antietam battlefield with them about noon on 18 September 1862. While on the field, he and three other officers of the regiment found and buried the body of Private Louis Merz of the 4th Georgia Infantry.

He was discharged and mustered out on 15 September 1864.

In 1870 he was again a telegraph operator in Pittsburgh. He had enlisted in the Pennsylvania National Guard in August 1869 and was promoted to Captain of the Duquesne Greys on 7 February 1870. They were re-designated Company C of the 18th Infantry in November 1871 and he resigned and was discharged on 15 December 1874. By 1880 he was a clerk in a store in Pittsburgh and he was a court stenographer there at his death from heart disease at age 55 in 1894.

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 His part in the burial of Private Merz at Antietam thanks to John Haltigan. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Josephine Blanche Totten (1841-1925) in March 1863 and they had 10 children.

Mr Haltigan, along with Arthur B. Fox and Jeane H. Stetson, is co-author of The Old 13th is at the Front: A History of the 102nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment 1861-1865 (2026) [via Amazon].

1839; Westmoreland County, PA

03/12/1894; Pittsburgh, PA; burial in Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA