From collection Member List
From Mattern: "i[nitiated] June 9, 1860 . . . enlisted, June 14, 1861, as pvt., Co. I (Ally. Coll. Co.), 39th Regt., 10th Pa. Res., for three years; promoted to sergt., June 18, 1862; wounded at Gaine's Mill, June 27, 1862; taken prisoner at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862, confined at Libby Prison, Richmond, Va., Dec. 17, 1862; paroled at City Point, Va., Jan. 10, 1863; reported at Camp Parole, Md., Jan. 12, 1863; sent to his regiment, May 16, 1863; mustered into service as 2d lieut. of same company, May 16, 1863; from July, 1863 to May 31, 1864, served as acting aide-de-camp, 3d Brigade, 3d Div., 5th Army Corps; honorably discharged, Pgh., June 11, 1864 . . . ." [Photo Mattern, p. 23, civilian] [Mattern, p. 43, says he "emerged from the War a captain." Gives detail; says saved life of Ira Ayers, Jr. (Allegheny 1860).]
