Drafted into Civil War service, mustering in as a Private with Company K, 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry on 11 August 1863. Mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina on 25 December 1863. Major engagements during his time of service: Union General Nathaniel Banks' Red River Campaign across Louisiana (part of the only Pennsylvania regiment so engaged from March to May 1864); Union General Philip Sheridan's tide-turning 186 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, including the battles of Opequan and Fisher's Hill (September 1864) and the Battle of Cedar Creek (19 October 1864).
Drafted into Civil War service, mustering in as a Private with Company K, 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry on 11 August 1863. Mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina on 25 December 1863. Major engagements during his time of service: Union General Nathaniel Banks' Red River Campaign across Louisiana (part of the only Pennsylvania regiment so engaged from March to May 1864); Union General Philip Sheridan's tide-turning 186 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, including the battles of Opequan and Fisher's Hill (September 1864) and the Battle of Cedar Creek (19 October 1864).
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