Lower Merion Historical Society

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Patrick H. Anderson

Pvt., 69th Pa. Infantry, Company D

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Held as prisoner of war

Enrolled Aug. 28, 1861 in Phila.at age 19, a laborer from Norristown. Mustered in Oct. 31, 1861, at Camp Observation, Md. Captured Sept. 17, 1862, at Antietam, and held until Oct. 6, 1862. Captured again July 1, 1863, near Gettysburg. Escaped Feb. 17, 1865. Entered Camp Discharge March 24, 1865. Hospitalized there for debility from "miasmatic disease" March 25, acute laryngitis April 7, and boils April 25. Discharged from military June 15,1865.