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Federal (USV)

Private

George Raab

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 9th Pennsylvania Reserves

Before Antietam

He mustered into service in Company B on 12 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, his frontal (skull) bone fractured and his right eye destroyed.

The rest of the War

He was discharged on a Surgeon's Certificate on 17 November 1862 and began receiving a disability pension in January 1863.

References & notes

Basic information from Bates,1 as George Roab, and his Pension Card, online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR.2

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. I, p. 797 [AotW citation 11937]

2 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, 339 [AotW citation 31399]

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