In 1850, he was a shoemaker living in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, but is not found in the 1860 census. He stood 5' 7" tall and had dark hair and gray eyes.
Reportedly a veteran of the Seminole and Mexican wars, possibly with the U.S. Navy (per his obituary), he enlisted for the Civil War at the stated age of forty-six in Lancaster September 23, 1861, and mustered into federal service there October 4 as a private with Co. G, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. On May 28, 1863, he was detailed as company cook but re-enlisted at the stated age of forty-six as a Veteran Volunteer February 9, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and re-mustered there February 12. He honorably discharged July 12, 1865, near Alexandria, Virginia, at which time he purchased his Enfield rifle and accoutrements for $6.00.
According to his obituary in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, he was found "wandering about the streets, almost in a state of insensibility, by Policeman Kauffman, and was taken into the [Hess] hotel and died in the policeman's arms." The obituary then adds cryptically, "The only enemy really that Jack had on earth was himself." He reportedly died at the age of "about" fifty but is in the 1850 census as a forty-year-old. His entry in the Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans erroneously lists his death day as November 4, but all his obituaries say otherwise.
Reportedly a veteran of the Seminole and Mexican wars, possibly with the U.S. Navy (per his obituary), he enlisted for the Civil War at the stated age of forty-six in Lancaster September 23, 1861, and mustered into federal service there October 4 as a private with Co. G, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. On May 28, 1863, he was detailed as company cook but re-enlisted at the stated age of forty-six as a Veteran Volunteer February 9, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and re-mustered there February 12. He honorably discharged July 12, 1865, near Alexandria, Virginia, at which time he purchased his Enfield rifle and accoutrements for $6.00.
According to his obituary in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, he was found "wandering about the streets, almost in a state of insensibility, by Policeman Kauffman, and was taken into the [Hess] hotel and died in the policeman's arms." The obituary then adds cryptically, "The only enemy really that Jack had on earth was himself." He reportedly died at the age of "about" fifty but is in the 1850 census as a forty-year-old. His entry in the Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans erroneously lists his death day as November 4, but all his obituaries say otherwise.
In 1850, he was a shoemaker living in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, but is not found in the 1860 census. He stood 5' 7" tall and had dark hair and gray eyes.
Reportedly a veteran of the Seminole and Mexican wars, possibly with the U.S. Navy (per his obituary), he enlisted for the Civil War at the stated age of forty-six in Lancaster September 23, 1861, and mustered into federal service there October 4 as a private with Co. G, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. On May 28, 1863, he was detailed as company cook but re-enlisted at the stated age of forty-six as a Veteran Volunteer February 9, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and re-mustered there February 12. He honorably discharged July 12, 1865, near Alexandria, Virginia, at which time he purchased his Enfield rifle and accoutrements for $6.00.
According to his obituary in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, he was found "wandering about the streets, almost in a state of insensibility, by Policeman Kauffman, and was taken into the [Hess] hotel and died in the policeman's arms." The obituary then adds cryptically, "The only enemy really that Jack had on earth was himself." He reportedly died at the age of "about" fifty but is in the 1850 census as a forty-year-old. His entry in the Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans erroneously lists his death day as November 4, but all his obituaries say otherwise.
Reportedly a veteran of the Seminole and Mexican wars, possibly with the U.S. Navy (per his obituary), he enlisted for the Civil War at the stated age of forty-six in Lancaster September 23, 1861, and mustered into federal service there October 4 as a private with Co. G, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. On May 28, 1863, he was detailed as company cook but re-enlisted at the stated age of forty-six as a Veteran Volunteer February 9, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and re-mustered there February 12. He honorably discharged July 12, 1865, near Alexandria, Virginia, at which time he purchased his Enfield rifle and accoutrements for $6.00.
According to his obituary in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, he was found "wandering about the streets, almost in a state of insensibility, by Policeman Kauffman, and was taken into the [Hess] hotel and died in the policeman's arms." The obituary then adds cryptically, "The only enemy really that Jack had on earth was himself." He reportedly died at the age of "about" fifty but is in the 1850 census as a forty-year-old. His entry in the Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans erroneously lists his death day as November 4, but all his obituaries say otherwise.
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