Lower Merion Historical Society

The Lower Merion Historical Society

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John Otto

Pvt., 36th Pa. Infantry (7th Pa. Reserves), Company A

Held as POW at Andersonville

Enrolled April 21, 1861 in Cumberland County at age 25, a carpenter. Captured at Cold Harbor, Va., May 30, 1864. Imprisoned at Andersonville. Released at Wilmington, N.C., Feb. 27, 1865. Recorded present at Camp Discharge March 30-May 30, 1865. Hospitalized at camp for chronic rheumatism April 6, 1865. Officially discharged from service April 12, 1865.