Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. He ran a tinsmith business prior to the Civil War. When that conflict began, he was as Captain and commander of Company G, 12th Pennsylvania Reserves on June 25, 1861. He led his men through the next three years of the war, as the regiment fought in the June-July 1862 Seven Days Battles, 2nd Battle of Bull, Run, and the Battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Rappahannock Station, The Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House. He was promoted to Major on April 19, 1864, and served until he was honorably mustered out on June 11, 1864 when his enlistment expired by law. He returned to his home in York County, Pennsylvania, and helped recruit the 200th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Commissioned it’s Colonel and commander on September 3, 1864, after the unit was sent to the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia he was elevated to command the 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, IX Corps in the Army of the Potomac. At the March 25, 1865 Battle of Fort Stedman, he directed his brigade’s defenses after a surprise dawn attack was made on the position by Confederate forces, and was wounded in the final hours of the engagement. He was honorably discharged on May 1865, having been brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers for “valuable and meritorious services in front of Petersburg, Va.”. After the war he joined the Pennsylvania National Guard, and served as Custodian of the Pennsylvania State Arsenal in Harrisburg.
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. He ran a tinsmith business prior to the Civil War. When that conflict began, he was as Captain and commander of Company G, 12th Pennsylvania Reserves on June 25, 1861. He led his men through the next three years of the war, as the regiment fought in the June-July 1862 Seven Days Battles, 2nd Battle of Bull, Run, and the Battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Rappahannock Station, The Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House. He was promoted to Major on April 19, 1864, and served until he was honorably mustered out on June 11, 1864 when his enlistment expired by law. He returned to his home in York County, Pennsylvania, and helped recruit the 200th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Commissioned it’s Colonel and commander on September 3, 1864, after the unit was sent to the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia he was elevated to command the 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, IX Corps in the Army of the Potomac. At the March 25, 1865 Battle of Fort Stedman, he directed his brigade’s defenses after a surprise dawn attack was made on the position by Confederate forces, and was wounded in the final hours of the engagement. He was honorably discharged on May 1865, having been brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers for “valuable and meritorious services in front of Petersburg, Va.”. After the war he joined the Pennsylvania National Guard, and served as Custodian of the Pennsylvania State Arsenal in Harrisburg.
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