2nd Lieutenant Samuel Jones Cloyd of the 12th Pennsylvania Reserves was seriously wounded at Antietam and lost his right arm to amputation soon after. He returned to his hometown, married late at age 56, had 4 sons, and died where he was born, in Orbisonia in Huntington County, PA at age 91 in 1925. This clipping from the Altoona Tribune of 21 March 1925 notes that he was the oldest man in the county at his death.

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