The son of John & Emma or Harriet Murphy, in 1860 he was a boatman living with his family in Fulton Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He is in the 1863-65 draft registration still as a resident of Fulton Township but listed as a laborer.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-six in Cecil County, Maryland, September 19, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Pikesville Arsenal in Baltimore County with what was originally Battery B, Purnell Legion Light Artillery, later reorganized to the 1st Maryland Light Artillery, the regiment in which his military records are found. Sometime around March 1862, he was court-martialed for an unstated offense and fined $6.00. Because no general court-martial transcript was found and given the light sentence, the trial appears to have occurred at the regimental level. Sometime around November 1862, he was promoted to corporal and honorably discharged at term's end November 19, 1864.
In 1880, he was living with his family in Fulton Township where he died at the village of Wakefield.
The birth year on the tombstone is questionable. As was so often the case in that era, many different ages were found for him. He is in the 1860 census as a twenty-three-year-old, is thirty in the 1870 census, forty-five in 1880, and his obituary in the Lancaster News Journal claims he died at the age of sixty-five.
source: Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334) • [email protected]
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A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-six in Cecil County, Maryland, September 19, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Pikesville Arsenal in Baltimore County with what was originally Battery B, Purnell Legion Light Artillery, later reorganized to the 1st Maryland Light Artillery, the regiment in which his military records are found. Sometime around March 1862, he was court-martialed for an unstated offense and fined $6.00. Because no general court-martial transcript was found and given the light sentence, the trial appears to have occurred at the regimental level. Sometime around November 1862, he was promoted to corporal and honorably discharged at term's end November 19, 1864.
In 1880, he was living with his family in Fulton Township where he died at the village of Wakefield.
The birth year on the tombstone is questionable. As was so often the case in that era, many different ages were found for him. He is in the 1860 census as a twenty-three-year-old, is thirty in the 1870 census, forty-five in 1880, and his obituary in the Lancaster News Journal claims he died at the age of sixty-five.
source: Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334) • [email protected]
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The son of John & Emma or Harriet Murphy, in 1860 he was a boatman living with his family in Fulton Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He is in the 1863-65 draft registration still as a resident of Fulton Township but listed as a laborer.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-six in Cecil County, Maryland, September 19, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Pikesville Arsenal in Baltimore County with what was originally Battery B, Purnell Legion Light Artillery, later reorganized to the 1st Maryland Light Artillery, the regiment in which his military records are found. Sometime around March 1862, he was court-martialed for an unstated offense and fined $6.00. Because no general court-martial transcript was found and given the light sentence, the trial appears to have occurred at the regimental level. Sometime around November 1862, he was promoted to corporal and honorably discharged at term's end November 19, 1864.
In 1880, he was living with his family in Fulton Township where he died at the village of Wakefield.
The birth year on the tombstone is questionable. As was so often the case in that era, many different ages were found for him. He is in the 1860 census as a twenty-three-year-old, is thirty in the 1870 census, forty-five in 1880, and his obituary in the Lancaster News Journal claims he died at the age of sixty-five.
source: Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334) • [email protected]
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A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-six in Cecil County, Maryland, September 19, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Pikesville Arsenal in Baltimore County with what was originally Battery B, Purnell Legion Light Artillery, later reorganized to the 1st Maryland Light Artillery, the regiment in which his military records are found. Sometime around March 1862, he was court-martialed for an unstated offense and fined $6.00. Because no general court-martial transcript was found and given the light sentence, the trial appears to have occurred at the regimental level. Sometime around November 1862, he was promoted to corporal and honorably discharged at term's end November 19, 1864.
In 1880, he was living with his family in Fulton Township where he died at the village of Wakefield.
The birth year on the tombstone is questionable. As was so often the case in that era, many different ages were found for him. He is in the 1860 census as a twenty-three-year-old, is thirty in the 1870 census, forty-five in 1880, and his obituary in the Lancaster News Journal claims he died at the age of sixty-five.
source: Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334) • [email protected]
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