A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, June 29, 1863, during the Gettysburg crisis, mustered into state service at Harrisburg July 1 as a private with Co. H, 39th Pennsylvania Militia, and honorably discharged with his company August 2, 1863.
Cause of his death is listed as "chronic interstitial nephritis {and} mitral stenosis" with "asthma" a contributing factor.
His obituary in the West Schuylkill Herald erroneously claims that "toward the close of the Civil War he enlisted as a volunteer in a Penna. Regiment and had served five months when the war came to a close."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, June 29, 1863, during the Gettysburg crisis, mustered into state service at Harrisburg July 1 as a private with Co. H, 39th Pennsylvania Militia, and honorably discharged with his company August 2, 1863.
Cause of his death is listed as "chronic interstitial nephritis {and} mitral stenosis" with "asthma" a contributing factor.
His obituary in the West Schuylkill Herald erroneously claims that "toward the close of the Civil War he enlisted as a volunteer in a Penna. Regiment and had served five months when the war came to a close."
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