Private
Company B
56th PennsylvaniaVolunteers
Contributed byAndy Gappa
Oak Woods Cemetery
Chicago, Ill.
Enrolled September 25, 1861 at Blairsville, age23; mustered in as Private at Harrisburg, October 29, 1861; occupation: Farmer,residence: Indiana County.
Applied for a pension, May 19, 1864: ApplicationNo. 45,808, Certificate No. 45,475; died January 21, 1924 at Dundee, Ill.
Sources:
S. P. Bates' "History of the PennsylvaniaVolunteers, 1861-65,"
National Archives. "Index to Civil War PensionFiles."
Pennsylvania Archives. ARAIS. "Civil War Veterans Card Files, 1861-1865.
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