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Crampton’s Gap casualty list, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

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 …

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Lt Evan Morrison Woodward (c. 1862)

A 34 year old clerk from Philadelphia, Morrison Woodward was Sergeant Major of the 2nd Pennsylvania Reserves when they fought in the Maryland Campaign of September 1862. He wrote of…