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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. |