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Samuel McKeowen (G) 1882
Samuel McKeowen had served as an officer in the 10th Regiment US
Infantry before the Civil War and had been stationed at Fort Bridger,
Wyoming Territory. He resigned in June 1861 and returned to his
native Philadelphia and joined the 27th Penna Volunteers. Being in
Company G of that unit he, like most in the company, transfered to the
69th Pa in November joining the regiment at Camp Observation
Maryland.
Lieutenant McKeowen's head wound at Glendale and leg and breast
wounds at Fredericksburg had left him disabled and he was discharged
from the 69th on April 4, 1863. Instead of returning to Philadelphia for
the remainder of the war, we next find him enrolled in the veterans
Reserve Corps in Washington D.C. becoming eventually a Capatin of
Battery E 5th Artillery by the end of the war. He remained in the 5th
Artillery until June 1866 when he was discharged and returned to
Philadelphia. There, he applied for a pension of $7.00 pr month for his
wartime wounds and married. He and his wife Martha seem to have
lived on this pension until his pension was canceled for unknown
reasons. He seems to have moved to Texas to live with relatives there
in Kinney County. By October 1869 he returned to Philadelphia where
his wife Martha died.
McKeowen was unable to work because of headaches and
rheumatism connected to his war service but could not obtain a
pension. He moved sometime in the late 1870's to a Soldier's Home in
Florence South Carolina. He died there on February 12, 1882 and is
buried in the National Cemetery alongside a number of Union prisoners
who died in the Confederate Prison located on that site during the war.
Patrick Noonan (G) 1886
After his chest wound on July 2nd 1863, Sergeant Patrick Noonan
was treated at the Frey barn by the surgeon from the 71st Pa, Dr.
Aiken. The bullet was extracted and Noonan was sent to Philadelphia.
He was assigned to the Mower Street Hospital where he slowly
recovered. By September 28th, he had left the hospital without
permission and returned home. He was reported as a desertor. Later,
he returned to the hospital and finally was mustered out of the service
on September 28, 1863. By June 5 1864, he had been granted an
invalid pension of two dollars per month. Noonan, a bachelor, had
difficulty holding down a job as a laborer. He worked for some time at
the James Rollins Rolling Mills in the city in iron production work.
By 1876 Noonan decided to leave Philadelphia and head west. He
received his final pension check on June 4, 1876 and then moved to
Cincinatti, Ohio and then to New Harmony, Indiana and then to
Missouri. By 1879 he was in Colorado doing part time work with
railroads. This work took him to New Mexico and Arizona. Much of
the time he lived with old army friends from the war. By 1884, he
applied to gain back all his pension funds that were owed to him and
was paid ina lump sum. His health continued to deteriorate. he seems
to have died sometime after 1885 in Flagstaff Arizona.