A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted September 11, 1862, in Shiremanstown, Cumberland County, mustered into state service as a private with Co. A, 1st Pennsylvania Militia, and honorably discharged with his company September 23, 1862.
2. Federally drafted at the stated age of twenty-four and mustered into federal service at Carlisle August 15, 1863, as a private with Co. K, 149th Pennsylvania Infantry. Captured at the battle of the Wilderness on May 5, 1864, his incarceration place is not stated in his compiled military service records. He may have been held in the stockade at Salisbury, North Carolina, because he not on the Andersonville roll and he was paroled February 26, 1865, at N.E. Ferry, North Carolina, near Wilmington. From there he was forwarded to Camp Parole, Annapolis, Maryland, on March 15 admitted to Newton U.S. Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, furloughed March 23, and discharged by surgeon's certificate to date May 20, 1865.
He married Lovina Hoffman in 1866 and fathered Anna M. (b. @1866), Ida R. (b. @1870), John L. (b. @1873), Henry I. (b. @1874), Sarah J. (b. @1877), and Frederick (b. @1878). Cause of his death is listed as "paralysis or hemorrhage of brain."
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted September 11, 1862, in Shiremanstown, Cumberland County, mustered into state service as a private with Co. A, 1st Pennsylvania Militia, and honorably discharged with his company September 23, 1862.
2. Federally drafted at the stated age of twenty-four and mustered into federal service at Carlisle August 15, 1863, as a private with Co. K, 149th Pennsylvania Infantry. Captured at the battle of the Wilderness on May 5, 1864, his incarceration place is not stated in his compiled military service records. He may have been held in the stockade at Salisbury, North Carolina, because he not on the Andersonville roll and he was paroled February 26, 1865, at N.E. Ferry, North Carolina, near Wilmington. From there he was forwarded to Camp Parole, Annapolis, Maryland, on March 15 admitted to Newton U.S. Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, furloughed March 23, and discharged by surgeon's certificate to date May 20, 1865.
He married Lovina Hoffman in 1866 and fathered Anna M. (b. @1866), Ida R. (b. @1870), John L. (b. @1873), Henry I. (b. @1874), Sarah J. (b. @1877), and Frederick (b. @1878). Cause of his death is listed as "paralysis or hemorrhage of brain."
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Pvt Co K 149 Reg PA Vol Inf
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Birth date calculated from stated age at death of 69-4-26
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