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Federal (USV)

Private

Samuel Montgomery

(c. 1833 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 28 year old farmer, he enlisted on 22 November 1861 and mustered as Private, Company G, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 26 November in Philadelphia.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the shoulder and back in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a field hospital on the Hoffman Farm near Sharpsburg. He was listed as a deserter on 27 July 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Card File 1 and Bates.2 Wound and hospital information from Nelson.3

Birth

c. 1833

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 23567]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23568]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 325 [AotW citation 23569]

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