Adam Swartzlander (c. 1853)

26 April 2025

Raised a farmer, Adam Swartlander left a wife and 3 small children at home in Butler County near Pittsburgh, PA when he enlisted in July 1861 as a Private in Company C of the 9th Pennsylvania Reserves. He was killed just over a year later at Antietam on 17 September 1862, not quite 30 years old.

Here he is in younger days. I’m guessing on the occasion of his marriage in March 1853.

Thanks to the photograph’s owner sstacy155853, who shared it to fold3, and to Jim Buchanan for finding it for us.

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