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(1820 - ?)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Pennsylvania Reserves
see his Battle Report
Before Antietam
In 1850 he was living in Smithfield, Bradford County, PA with wife and 3 children, occupied as a harnessmaker.1 By the start of the War he was a lawyer, from Lock Haven, and he enrolled as Captain, Company D, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves in April 1861. In June he was promoted to Major of the Regiment.2
On the Campaign
Major Lyman relieved Colonel Bolinger in command of the Regiment when the Colonel was wounded in action at Turner's Gap on September 14th.
The rest of the War
He was promoted again, to Lieutenant Colonel in July 1863, and resigned 21 February 1864.2
Birth
1820
Death
Date not known
1 Census data transcribed and copyright by Neil Teague in 2000. File location: http://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/pa/bradford/1850/756-342a.txt
US Census Bureau, and USGenWeb volunteers, transcribers, USGenWeb Census Project, Published 1998-, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.us-census.org/>, Source page: Bradford County, PA 1850 Federal Census (File 23 of 59) [AotW citation 127]
2 Image of card for Lyman, C. A.: http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/Archives/17/22/LoadMedia/3215/0001/0955.gif
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 128]