(c. 1818 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 43, he enlisted in Philadelphia on 15 July 1861 and mustered into service as a Private in Company K, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry the same day. He transferred to Company C, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
After the War
He was reinterred from his original burial on the battlefield to the National Cemetery in about 1867.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1818
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 [AotW citation 4379]
2 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 23139]