The son of William Coleman, he married Sarah Ann Reed or Read ca. 1862 and fathered Samuel (b. @1865), Mary E. (b. 03/??/67 - married John George Keil), Joseph R. (b. 10/24/69), and Sarah J. (b. 02/14/79). While not found in the 1860 census, he is in the 1863-65 draft registration residing in Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and shown to not yet be an American citizen.
He dipped his toe into Civil War waters when he responded to a call for emergency troops and enlisted in Columbia September 10, 1862, mustered into state service that day as a private with Co. I, 2nd Pennsylvania Militia, but "left [the] company [at] Chambersburg 9/18/62 and returned home." It is not known if his departure was under honorable or dishonorable circumstances, although the regiment's inclusion on his tombstone suggests it was honorable as veterans generally avoided memorializing regiments from which they had deserted. Nonetheless, it is surprising that his family saw fit to memorialize his six days of uneventful service with a state militia regiment. Indeed, had he completed his term of service, his entire term would have encompassed only two weeks and been no more eventful.
By 1870, he was living with his family in Harrisburg where he died at his home from "uremia following a prostatic abscess [from] chronic interstitial nephritis."
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He dipped his toe into Civil War waters when he responded to a call for emergency troops and enlisted in Columbia September 10, 1862, mustered into state service that day as a private with Co. I, 2nd Pennsylvania Militia, but "left [the] company [at] Chambersburg 9/18/62 and returned home." It is not known if his departure was under honorable or dishonorable circumstances, although the regiment's inclusion on his tombstone suggests it was honorable as veterans generally avoided memorializing regiments from which they had deserted. Nonetheless, it is surprising that his family saw fit to memorialize his six days of uneventful service with a state militia regiment. Indeed, had he completed his term of service, his entire term would have encompassed only two weeks and been no more eventful.
By 1870, he was living with his family in Harrisburg where he died at his home from "uremia following a prostatic abscess [from] chronic interstitial nephritis."
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The son of William Coleman, he married Sarah Ann Reed or Read ca. 1862 and fathered Samuel (b. @1865), Mary E. (b. 03/??/67 - married John George Keil), Joseph R. (b. 10/24/69), and Sarah J. (b. 02/14/79). While not found in the 1860 census, he is in the 1863-65 draft registration residing in Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and shown to not yet be an American citizen.
He dipped his toe into Civil War waters when he responded to a call for emergency troops and enlisted in Columbia September 10, 1862, mustered into state service that day as a private with Co. I, 2nd Pennsylvania Militia, but "left [the] company [at] Chambersburg 9/18/62 and returned home." It is not known if his departure was under honorable or dishonorable circumstances, although the regiment's inclusion on his tombstone suggests it was honorable as veterans generally avoided memorializing regiments from which they had deserted. Nonetheless, it is surprising that his family saw fit to memorialize his six days of uneventful service with a state militia regiment. Indeed, had he completed his term of service, his entire term would have encompassed only two weeks and been no more eventful.
By 1870, he was living with his family in Harrisburg where he died at his home from "uremia following a prostatic abscess [from] chronic interstitial nephritis."
Grandview Lawn 375
He dipped his toe into Civil War waters when he responded to a call for emergency troops and enlisted in Columbia September 10, 1862, mustered into state service that day as a private with Co. I, 2nd Pennsylvania Militia, but "left [the] company [at] Chambersburg 9/18/62 and returned home." It is not known if his departure was under honorable or dishonorable circumstances, although the regiment's inclusion on his tombstone suggests it was honorable as veterans generally avoided memorializing regiments from which they had deserted. Nonetheless, it is surprising that his family saw fit to memorialize his six days of uneventful service with a state militia regiment. Indeed, had he completed his term of service, his entire term would have encompassed only two weeks and been no more eventful.
By 1870, he was living with his family in Harrisburg where he died at his home from "uremia following a prostatic abscess [from] chronic interstitial nephritis."
Grandview Lawn 375
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