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Appended to Colonel Cake’s official report as printed on page 2 of the Pottsville (PA) Miner’s Journal of Saturday, 4 October 1862, is his list of the men of his 96th Pennsylvania Infantry who were killed or wounded in the fight at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862. It’s not found in the Official Records in company with the Colonel’s report.

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My transcription of the text and links to the individual soldiers’ pages on AotW, after the jump …

I append a statement of the killed and wounded in detail:-

Major Lewis J. Martin, killed.

CO. A, CAPT. L. S. Hay, COMD’G
KILLED
Corporal Gomer Jones
WOUNDED
Corporal Frank Hanley*
Sergeant Edward Thomas
Richard Brennen
Caleb Kinzi
Edward Fenstermacher
[Corporal] Edward McCormick

CO. B, CAPT. P. A. FILBERT, COMD’G
WOUNDED
Orderly Sergeant John Von Hollen

CO. C, CAPT W.M. LESSIG, COMD’G
KILLED
Color Serg’t Sol. McMinzie
Martin Sipe
WOUNDED
Sergt Alex Allison
Color Sergt Thos Oliver
Corrporal Thos Hilton
Hugh Lynch
John Frazer
David Thomas
Charles Bast
Arthur Branagan

CO. D CAPT JOHN T BOYLE, COMD’G
KILLED
Thomas Reese
Thomas D Williams
WOUNDED
John Carr
William Campbell

CO. E, 1ST LIEUT. JOHN S OBERRENDER, COMD’G
KILLED
Otto G H Vogle [Vogel]
WOUNDED
Benjamin Mitchell

COMPANY F, 1st Lieut. John Dougherty, Comd’g Company, killed
WOUNDED
Corporal Patrick Sullivan
John O’Donnell
Michael Connery†
Thomas Tracy
Andrew Glennon
Francis Harris

CO. G, CAPT. JACOB W HAAS, COMD’G
KILLED
Thomas Haines [Hains]
WOUNDED
Josua Strasser [Strauser]
Joel Burd [Bird]
Joshua [Josiah] Workman
Abraham Strasser [Strauser]
John D Grim
Robt D Weaver
James Kaercher
Israel Strasser [Strauser]
Louis Fritz

CO. H, CAPT. HENRY ROYER, COMD’G
KILLED
Christian Beidle [Bidel]
John Sentman
John Haley
Oliver G. Treichler
Henry Z [P] Koons
Charles B. Ziegler
WOUNDED
Sergt Joe S Johnson
Jeremiah Miller
Sergt George E Hughes
David W Jenkins
William Horn
Thomas L Morgan
John Clary [Clarey]
[Corporal] William Ortner
David P Thompson
Patrick Fell
Davis Mellon
Peter Friece [Fries]
Aaron Miller
Anthony Fisher
Michael McCormick

CO. I, 1ST LIEUT. MATHEW BYRNES, COMD’G
KILLED
William Weaklin [Weaklim]
George James
WOUNDED
John B Davis
Manus McAffery [McCaffrey]
Thomas Boyle
Boyd S Campbell [Cammel]
Peter McAnnany [McAnany]
Michael Callahan
Daniel Sweeny
John Lennon [Lannen]

CO. K, CAPT. RICHARD BUDD
KILLED
Patrick McAllister [McCallister]
Barney McMichael
WOUNDED
Jeremiah Curran
Jacob Graeff
[Corporal] Thomas Gribbon [Gribbin]
John Hollan [Holan]
[Corporal] Patrick Welsh
Charles Weatner [Wessner]‡
Patrick Delaney
[Corporal] Patrick Conville
Michael McCarty
John G Farrell
John Broderick
Patrick Fay
Barnett McMulligan¶
Michael Holleran

RECAPITULATION
…
19 killed, 70 wounded

This does not include 14 men slightly wounded, but not incapacitated from doing immediately with their companies.

* Frank Hanley died in camp at Bakersville, MD on 29 October 1862.

† Michael Connery is listed by Bates’ History and in the Civil War Veteran’s Card File as having been killed at Gaines’ Mill, VA on 27 June 1862. He enlisted in Pottsville on 13 September 1861 at age 26; no further information found in census or genealogical records. If this military record is correct, he couldn’t have been at Crampton’s Gap.

‡ Charles Wessner died at Sharpsburg, probably in the Antietam/Smoketown hospital, on 5 March 1863.

¶ Barnett McMulligan not found in any roll or roster for the regiment. Possibly confused with Barney McMichael, who was KIA. Or possibly Bernard McMonigal/McGonigal: Irish born miner, enlisted in Pottsville in October 1861 at age 45, reenlisted, transferred to the 95th Pennsylvania, and mustered out in July 1865.

Thanks to the Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive for posting the Miner’s Journal online, and to regimental historian David A Ward for the pointer to it, in his The 96th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War (2018).