DOB: November 24, 1828

Place of Birth: Londonderry, Ireland

Service Record

23rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Captain, April 18 1861

Honorably mustered out 31 July 1861

23rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Captain, 2 August 1861

Resigned, 15 July 1862

118th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment(1)

Leiutenant Colonel, 25 July 1862

Colonel, 5 December 1863

3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Corps

Commanding, November 24, 1864 Spec. Ord. No. 32

Brevet Brigadier General, Volunteers, 30 September 1864, for gallantry and distinguished service in the battle of Poplar Springs Church, near Petersburg, VA.

Brevet Major General, Volunteers, 1 April 1865, for gallantry and meritorious service at the battle of Five Forks, VA

Honorably mustered out of service, 1 June 1865

Died: July 17, 1906

Burial: Woodlands Cemetary, Philadelphia, Penna. Section E, Lot 33.

(1) Further information on some of his activites in the 118th can be found in the following book: Inside the Army of the Potomac, The Civil War experiance of Captain Francis Adams Donaldson.