A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-two at in Chester July 10, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Camp Carroll in Balitmore, Maryland, July 26 as a private with Co. A, 1st Pennsylvania Reserves (30th Pennsylvania Infantry). Captured on October 11, 1863, while "guarding private property" near Culpeper, Virginia, he was ultimately incarcerated in the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia, where he died in the prison hospital from the effects of dysentery.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-two at in Chester July 10, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Camp Carroll in Balitmore, Maryland, July 26 as a private with Co. A, 1st Pennsylvania Reserves (30th Pennsylvania Infantry). Captured on October 11, 1863, while "guarding private property" near Culpeper, Virginia, he was ultimately incarcerated in the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia, where he died in the prison hospital from the effects of dysentery.
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