The son of English-born Robert & Pennsylvania-born Mary (Bowder or Boussam) Dunkinson, in 1860 he was a paper maker living on the family farm in Guilford Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 7" tall and had light hair and blue eyes. The family is in the 1860 census as "Duncanson."
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen in Chambersburg August 4, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 11 as a private with Co. G, 126th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company May 20, 1863.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of eighteen in Chambersburg January 29, 1864, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg February 4 as a private with Independent Battery B Pennsylvania Light Artillery, joining the regiment at Nashville, Tennessee, on February 19. He was shot in the left thigh in action at Marietta, Georgia, admitted to a field hospital near the Chattahoochee River, and forwarded to No. 8 U.S. Hospital at Nashville, Tennessee, on July 23, 1864. He discharged by surgeon's certificate to date June 27, 1865. His brother Robert served in the same battery.
He married Julia Ann Ritter December 20, 1866, and fathered Charles Ritter (b. 01/13/68), William Edward (b. 05/??/70), and Sallie Metcalfe (b. 08/29/72 - married John Norris Strealy). He died at the reported age of 29-3-16, although his brief death notice in the Chambersburg Public Weekly Opinion lists no cause of death. Note that the company descriptive list claims he was born in Cumberland County.
More info: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/GHJV-P8S
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen in Chambersburg August 4, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 11 as a private with Co. G, 126th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company May 20, 1863.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of eighteen in Chambersburg January 29, 1864, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg February 4 as a private with Independent Battery B Pennsylvania Light Artillery, joining the regiment at Nashville, Tennessee, on February 19. He was shot in the left thigh in action at Marietta, Georgia, admitted to a field hospital near the Chattahoochee River, and forwarded to No. 8 U.S. Hospital at Nashville, Tennessee, on July 23, 1864. He discharged by surgeon's certificate to date June 27, 1865. His brother Robert served in the same battery.
He married Julia Ann Ritter December 20, 1866, and fathered Charles Ritter (b. 01/13/68), William Edward (b. 05/??/70), and Sallie Metcalfe (b. 08/29/72 - married John Norris Strealy). He died at the reported age of 29-3-16, although his brief death notice in the Chambersburg Public Weekly Opinion lists no cause of death. Note that the company descriptive list claims he was born in Cumberland County.
More info: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/GHJV-P8S
The son of English-born Robert & Pennsylvania-born Mary (Bowder or Boussam) Dunkinson, in 1860 he was a paper maker living on the family farm in Guilford Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 7" tall and had light hair and blue eyes. The family is in the 1860 census as "Duncanson."
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen in Chambersburg August 4, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 11 as a private with Co. G, 126th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company May 20, 1863.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of eighteen in Chambersburg January 29, 1864, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg February 4 as a private with Independent Battery B Pennsylvania Light Artillery, joining the regiment at Nashville, Tennessee, on February 19. He was shot in the left thigh in action at Marietta, Georgia, admitted to a field hospital near the Chattahoochee River, and forwarded to No. 8 U.S. Hospital at Nashville, Tennessee, on July 23, 1864. He discharged by surgeon's certificate to date June 27, 1865. His brother Robert served in the same battery.
He married Julia Ann Ritter December 20, 1866, and fathered Charles Ritter (b. 01/13/68), William Edward (b. 05/??/70), and Sallie Metcalfe (b. 08/29/72 - married John Norris Strealy). He died at the reported age of 29-3-16, although his brief death notice in the Chambersburg Public Weekly Opinion lists no cause of death. Note that the company descriptive list claims he was born in Cumberland County.
More info: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/GHJV-P8S
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen in Chambersburg August 4, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 11 as a private with Co. G, 126th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company May 20, 1863.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of eighteen in Chambersburg January 29, 1864, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg February 4 as a private with Independent Battery B Pennsylvania Light Artillery, joining the regiment at Nashville, Tennessee, on February 19. He was shot in the left thigh in action at Marietta, Georgia, admitted to a field hospital near the Chattahoochee River, and forwarded to No. 8 U.S. Hospital at Nashville, Tennessee, on July 23, 1864. He discharged by surgeon's certificate to date June 27, 1865. His brother Robert served in the same battery.
He married Julia Ann Ritter December 20, 1866, and fathered Charles Ritter (b. 01/13/68), William Edward (b. 05/??/70), and Sallie Metcalfe (b. 08/29/72 - married John Norris Strealy). He died at the reported age of 29-3-16, although his brief death notice in the Chambersburg Public Weekly Opinion lists no cause of death. Note that the company descriptive list claims he was born in Cumberland County.
More info: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/GHJV-P8S
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