The son of Robert & Elizabeth (Barker) Criswell, in 1860 he was a laborer living with his family in Middle Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 7" tall and had brown hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-one in Harrisburg with the regular army March 28, 1864, and assigned to Co. D, 33rd U.S. Infantry, but transferred to the 15th U.S. Infantry shortly after mustering. He honorably discharged at term's end March 28, 1867, at Montgomery, Alabama.
Cause of his death is listed as "lobar pneumonia left side."
Although the birth year shown above agrees with that stated on his death certificate, it is almost certainly wrong, beginning with his stated age at enlistment. Twenty-five-year-old Civil War recruits were not inclined to understate their ages and had no reason to do so. Neither does any census concur with an 1839 birth year. For example:
1860 census: ca. 1841; 1870: ca. 1844; 1880: ca. 1840; 1900: January 1841
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-one in Harrisburg with the regular army March 28, 1864, and assigned to Co. D, 33rd U.S. Infantry, but transferred to the 15th U.S. Infantry shortly after mustering. He honorably discharged at term's end March 28, 1867, at Montgomery, Alabama.
Cause of his death is listed as "lobar pneumonia left side."
Although the birth year shown above agrees with that stated on his death certificate, it is almost certainly wrong, beginning with his stated age at enlistment. Twenty-five-year-old Civil War recruits were not inclined to understate their ages and had no reason to do so. Neither does any census concur with an 1839 birth year. For example:
1860 census: ca. 1841; 1870: ca. 1844; 1880: ca. 1840; 1900: January 1841
The son of Robert & Elizabeth (Barker) Criswell, in 1860 he was a laborer living with his family in Middle Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 7" tall and had brown hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-one in Harrisburg with the regular army March 28, 1864, and assigned to Co. D, 33rd U.S. Infantry, but transferred to the 15th U.S. Infantry shortly after mustering. He honorably discharged at term's end March 28, 1867, at Montgomery, Alabama.
Cause of his death is listed as "lobar pneumonia left side."
Although the birth year shown above agrees with that stated on his death certificate, it is almost certainly wrong, beginning with his stated age at enlistment. Twenty-five-year-old Civil War recruits were not inclined to understate their ages and had no reason to do so. Neither does any census concur with an 1839 birth year. For example:
1860 census: ca. 1841; 1870: ca. 1844; 1880: ca. 1840; 1900: January 1841
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-one in Harrisburg with the regular army March 28, 1864, and assigned to Co. D, 33rd U.S. Infantry, but transferred to the 15th U.S. Infantry shortly after mustering. He honorably discharged at term's end March 28, 1867, at Montgomery, Alabama.
Cause of his death is listed as "lobar pneumonia left side."
Although the birth year shown above agrees with that stated on his death certificate, it is almost certainly wrong, beginning with his stated age at enlistment. Twenty-five-year-old Civil War recruits were not inclined to understate their ages and had no reason to do so. Neither does any census concur with an 1839 birth year. For example:
1860 census: ca. 1841; 1870: ca. 1844; 1880: ca. 1840; 1900: January 1841
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