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(? - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted and mustered on 15 December 1861 in Pottsville, PA as a Private in Company K, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of his wounds on 26 September in Hagerstown, MD and was originally buried there.
After the War
He was reinterred in the National Cemetery in about 1867.
References & notes
Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 which lists him as Michael Halran. His service basics from Bates,2 as Michael Holloran, and the Card File.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as Michael Holloran.
His brother Thomas enlisted with him at age 35 as a Private in Company K and mustered out with the 95th Infantry in July 1865.
Death
09/26/1862; Hagerstown, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869, p. 140 [AotW citation 3589]
2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31019]
3 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 31020]