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"Dick"
(1843 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A master carpenter's son, in 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents and sister in Sewickley, Allegheny County, PA. He enlisted on 1 July 1861 in Sewickley(ville) and mustered in Philadelphia on 11 July as a Corporal in Company G, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
More on the Web
Some of his wartime letters home are in the collection of the Sewickley Valley Historical Society.
Birth
05/04/1843; Allegheny County, PA
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Sewickley Cemetery, Sewickley, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. 1, pp. 456 - 462 [AotW citation 8090]
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 32673]