He enlisted in Capt. Cooper's Battery Independent. Battalion (later named Battery A PA Light Artillery) Pennsylvania Artillery (100 days 1864) serving 19 May 1864 to 29 August 1864. Physical description 5 foot 9 1/2 inches tall, had brown hair and hazel eyes. Although his service record is slim it is a safe bet that he served in the fortifications erected around the Pittsburgh area to protect the steel industry and the Allegheny Arsenal. Some of those Forts were named and are familiar to native Pittsburghers. Forts Brunot, McKever, Fulton, Black, Smalls, McKinley, McKnight, Mechanic were the names that came down in an article in the now extinct Pittsburgh Press by George Swetnam. There were some 20 redoubts and 13 Batteries on a Corps of Engineers map made by a Captain Craighill. There is a frustrating one liner that teases. A Camp Brooks is mentioned but no location is given. ' Battery A was mentioned as being stationed there.'

Enlisted as a Private on 22 August 1864.
Killed on 19 October 1864 at Cedar Creek, VA.

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E Battery was raised by James D Knap & Charles A Atwell. Knap was killed before Gettysburg, so Atwell cook command. Atwell was later seriously wounded some 6 months after Gettysburg & died as a result of his injuries.

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Martin Wolfe enlisted at age 50 into Battery H 1st Pa. Light Artillery on September 4th 1862. He was mustered out on June 27th 1865. He is my great-great-great Grandfather. Two of his sons served in the Union Navy on the U.S.S. Yantick. One was John H Wolfe, my great-great grandfather, the other was his older brother Herman H.R. Wolfe who lived until age 88 in 1925.

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