Biographical Sketches of Officers.                         527

    Lieut. Wynkoop, one of the bravest men who left Schuylkill County during the Rebellion, entered the three months' service as fourth Sergeant of the Nagle Guards, that left Pottsville on the 22d of April, 1861, and formed part of the 6th Pa. Reg. After his return from that service he entered the 7th Pa. Cavalry; was appointed Adjutant of the Second Battalion, and left Harrisburg with the Regiment, for the West, December 18, 1861. He served with the Regiment, ably and faithfully, and fell in the Battle of Gallatin, Tenn., on the 21st of August, 1862.

Source:

Wallace, Francis B., [comp.], Memorial of the Patriotism of Schuylkill County in the American Slaveholder's Rebellion: Embracing a Complete List of the Names of All the Volunteers from the County During the War; Patriotic Contributions by the Citizens; List of the Names of Those Who Fell in Battle or Died by Disease; Descriptions of the Part Taken in Various Engagements by Our Regiments, With Casualties; Chronological Record of the Principal Events of the Rebellion; Biographical Sketches of Prominent Officers and of Surgeons From the County, &c., Accompanied by a Plate of Portraits of Generals and Colonels From This County, and a Map of the Southern States With the Battlefields Marked, Pottsville, Pa., Benjamin Bannan, 1865, p. 527.