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(1836 - 1884)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 24 year old coal miner in Minersville, Schuylkill County, PA. He enlisted and mustered on 1 October 1861 as First Sergeant of Company F, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the head by a piece of shell which punctured his skull in action on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the Capitol Hospital in Washington, DC on 23 September and transferred to the DeCamp Hospital in New York Harbor on 28 September. Assistant Surgeon William K Cleveland operated on him there on 3 October to remove pieces of damaged bone. He "made an excellent recovery" and was discharged for disability on 4 December 1862.
After the War
In December 1869 a pension examiner noted that he was well-healed but reported neuralgic pains and vertigo at times, but that his general health and appearance were good. In 1870 and to at least 1880 he was an engineer and lived in Minersville (1870) and Girardville (1880), PA.
References & notes
Birth
02/03/1836; Schuylkill County, PA
Death
1884; Girardville, PA; burial in Minersville Union Cemetery, Minersville, PA
1 Gould, Joseph, The Story of the Forty-eighth : a Record of the Campaigns of the Forty-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry ..., Philadelphia: Regimental Association, 1908, pp. 82 - 90, 400 - 460 (rosters) [AotW citation 5469]
2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31355]
3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1. p. 291 [AotW citation 31356]