A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at an unstated age in Gettysburg September 12, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg November 5 as a corporal with Co. K, 101st Pennsylvania Infantry. Wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks on May 31, 1862, he was discharged by surgeon's certificate September 27, 1862.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty in Adams County October 16, 1862, as a substitute for Samuel March, mustered into federal service at Gettysburg November 5 as a sergeant with Co. F, 165th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company July 28, 1863, in Gettysburg.
He married Elenora J. LNU. and fathered Rosa Effie (b. @1867 - did not survive her mother). By 1880, he was living in Middlesex Township, Cumberland County, and, in 1890, in Mt. Holly Springs, Cumberland County, where he died at his home. Some of his obituaries in Cumberland County newspapers list him with a middle initial of "N."
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at an unstated age in Gettysburg September 12, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg November 5 as a corporal with Co. K, 101st Pennsylvania Infantry. Wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks on May 31, 1862, he was discharged by surgeon's certificate September 27, 1862.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty in Adams County October 16, 1862, as a substitute for Samuel March, mustered into federal service at Gettysburg November 5 as a sergeant with Co. F, 165th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company July 28, 1863, in Gettysburg.
He married Elenora J. LNU. and fathered Rosa Effie (b. @1867 - did not survive her mother). By 1880, he was living in Middlesex Township, Cumberland County, and, in 1890, in Mt. Holly Springs, Cumberland County, where he died at his home. Some of his obituaries in Cumberland County newspapers list him with a middle initial of "N."
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