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Federal (USV)

Corporal

James D. Travelli

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 28th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Giving his age as 19, from Sewickley in Allegheny County, PA, he enlisted there on 1 July 1861 and mustered on 11 July in Philadelphia as a Corporal in Company G, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his side in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and died at the Ward Springs field hospital on the Susan Hoffman Farm near Sharpsburg the next day.

References & notes

His service from Bates,1 as James B. Traville, and the Card File,2 as James P. Travelly; both have him killed outright at Antietam. Wound and hospital details from Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1850, and his death record, reported by regimental Surgeon Henry E Goodman. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Claude Whalen for the nudge to look further into Corporal Travelli.

Birth

c. 1843 in PA

Death

09/18/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Sewickley Cemetery, Sewickley, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. 1, pp. 456 - 462 [AotW citation 8091]

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 35023]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 416 [AotW citation 35028]

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