tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82962871009708116082024-03-10T23:23:31.207-04:00 The 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer InfantryJohn David Hoptakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521690201528852944noreply@blogger.comBlogger365125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-13737372284063426542023-07-04T09:11:00.000-04:002023-07-04T09:11:28.656-04:00Faces of the 48th: Clay W. Evans--129th PA; Company G, 48th PA; and 1st Lt. 31st USCT<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdA4GAwr-GEIbU3LUDZgHCk4jjVcXP3Ax2FqWavjuAWJ4RD6aYzojMO8MhSTN1XwStBAFKwvQcgvx22clY6yW9Ab9Otcc4LjYiLB5Z_OSUyQ-g38R3zYPt99l6AcmbZ987mIUoGIHEVD2gGF_8HvWPAaQZz6mnb6wjbzkkQv3KPmt3BB6Kfa9PFbVeqTgR/s1026/48%20PA%20Evans%20Clay%20W%20Hoptak%20Collection.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="609" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdA4GAwr-GEIbU3LUDZgHCk4jjVcXP3Ax2FqWavjuAWJ4RD6aYzojMO8MhSTN1XwStBAFKwvQcgvx22clY6yW9Ab9Otcc4LjYiLB5Z_OSUyQ-g38R3zYPt99l6AcmbZ987mIUoGIHEVD2gGF_8HvWPAaQZz6mnb6wjbzkkQv3KPmt3BB6Kfa9PFbVeqTgR/w380-h640/48%20PA%20Evans%20Clay%20W%20Hoptak%20Collection.jpg" width="380" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Clay W. Evans</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Photographed in 1865 as Lieutenant, 31st USCT) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>John D. Hoptak Collection</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I always enjoy seeing a "new" face of the 48th, and just a few days ago, my friend Britt alerted me to a "new" image of a soldier who had served in the 48th Pennsylvania. His name was Clay W. Evans and not only did he serve in the 48th, but he had also served in the nine-month 129th Pennsylvania as well as in the 31st United States Colored Troops (USCT) during the final year of the war. He later became a leading citizen of St. Clair, became sheriff of Schuylkill County and even served a term in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. . .along with numerous other positions. Quite a busy life he led. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Born on February 10, 1844, in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Clay W. Evans was a son of Eliza and Thomas Evans. His paternal grandfather--Lot Evans--was a prominent early settler of St. Clair, just outside Pottsville, and it was there where Clay grew up. He attended the local public schools for a time and worked as a slate picker at a coal mine for a number of years until 1857 when, at age 13, he went to work in Walter Sedgwick's grocery store. He was still thus employed when, in April 1861, civil war broke out. Although only having turned 17 a few months before, and like many a young man, Clay Evans was determined to enlist. He ran away from home, made his way to Harrisburg, and succeeded in enlisting into the ranks of the 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry, at least according to a newspaper account published in 1898, when Evans assumed stewardship of the Schuylkill County Almshouse. It wasn't long, however, before Evans's mother, Eliza, "induced him to return home." Not to be deterred, Evans, in the summer of 1862 and now 18 years of age, once more entered the ranks, this time in Company B, of the 129th Pennsylvania Infantry, a nine-month regiment that was engaged in heavy combat at the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Mustered out as a corporal, Evans returned to his home in St. Clair but in February 1864, now twenty years of age, he once more enlisted, this time into the ranks of Company G, of the veteran 48th Pennsylvania Infantry. Wounded twice at the Battle of Spotsylvania on May 12, 1864, Evans remained with the 48th until the winter of 1864, when he was recommended for and accepted an officer's commission in the 31st United States Colored Infantry. He served with the 31st USCT until being discharged in December 1865. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Returning to St. Clair, the soon-to-be-twenty-two-year-old Clay Evans went back to work as a clerk. He married two years later, on September 3, 1867, to Emily Allison, also of St. Clair, and the couple had at least three children: Guy Evans (1869-1901); Robert A. Evans (1886-1943); and Cad M. Evans. Setting out on his own in 1872, Clay Evans opened his very own store, dealing in groceries and dry goods. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0stIKrRkGooOcDlsrZU8lBpL27PqjjR1pgJ79JTzNlnrzIiwNRy-tf0zWqtABvG2DNqNXZWhascImTzzDH3THYeffLmJr2nxqkUDEasCw40dIjeEsphF_jEMw3O34jfEO6aQMzPHzFzriyiXwiW7-1Gl5q9k_E3Wj4fkU-cjhd3SnqNatY_B-Fgvtti0I/s1167/48%20PA%20Evans%20Clay%20W%20Store.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1167" data-original-width="819" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0stIKrRkGooOcDlsrZU8lBpL27PqjjR1pgJ79JTzNlnrzIiwNRy-tf0zWqtABvG2DNqNXZWhascImTzzDH3THYeffLmJr2nxqkUDEasCw40dIjeEsphF_jEMw3O34jfEO6aQMzPHzFzriyiXwiW7-1Gl5q9k_E3Wj4fkU-cjhd3SnqNatY_B-Fgvtti0I/s320/48%20PA%20Evans%20Clay%20W%20Store.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Bargains await at Clay Evans' General Store! <br />(<i>Pottsville Republican</i>, 9/27/1887)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Evans managed his business for a good number of years and also became very active in the state militia, advancing his way up ultimately to the ranks of major. Civic-minded, Evans also served on the school board, on the St. Clair Borough Council for a number of years, and, finally, as a member of the Pennsylvania State Legislature, representing Schuylkill County and the Fourth District in the PA State House during the session that ran from 1879-1880. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8WxvVjmncR2vu9Ip4pEBzYS6PrjFfRq_lP4J698IizC5r08RVZyLTDWdiTvz2jyZt2EObsDdPHDWbvnsEczRxUP4Q64YAie7XNzxT6wW8BPds4nzGCOMQZYcNvS8nakZBMF8ReSNcJk9ltFUavuVLSV2GlMduEQh59mrPhTRv6OYJWd6ghupbE0pclKi3/s420/48%20PA%20Evans%20Clay%20W%20PA%20State%20House.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8WxvVjmncR2vu9Ip4pEBzYS6PrjFfRq_lP4J698IizC5r08RVZyLTDWdiTvz2jyZt2EObsDdPHDWbvnsEczRxUP4Q64YAie7XNzxT6wW8BPds4nzGCOMQZYcNvS8nakZBMF8ReSNcJk9ltFUavuVLSV2GlMduEQh59mrPhTRv6OYJWd6ghupbE0pclKi3/s320/48%20PA%20Evans%20Clay%20W%20PA%20State%20House.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Clay W. Evans as a member of the PA State Legislature</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">1879-1880 <br />(<i>Pennsylvania House of Representatives Archives</i>)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://archives.house.state.pa.us/people/member-biography?ID=6880&body=H">Evans's Biography from PA State House Archives</a><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div>And as if all this were not enough, Evans, in 1898, was appointed Steward of the Schuylkill County almshouse, and then from 1899-1906, and again from 1911-1915, he worked as a deputy revenue collector for the IRS. In between (1907-1910), he served as sheriff of Schuylkill County. Evans was also actively involved in the GAR; was a Mason, and a member of the local Odd Fellows' branch. He sought higher officer, but in 1912 was defeated in his bid for a seat in the United States House of Representatives. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Evans reportedly enjoyed good health until 1917 when he was stricken by a number of illnesses. The end came on a Friday morning--September 20, 1918. Clay W. Evans--slate picker, store worker, clerk, soldier and officer, veteran of many a bloody campaign, business owner, steward, state representative, sheriff, school board member and councilman, husband, and father--passed away at the of 74. His remains were laid to rest in Pottsville's Charles Baber Cemetery. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It was certainly a full and busy life Clay W. Evans led. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Ten months of his 74+ years were spent in the ranks of the 48th Pennsylvania. <br /> </div><br /><p></p>John David Hoptakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521690201528852944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-72899400326048062812023-05-21T12:26:00.002-04:002023-05-21T12:26:41.210-04:00A New Headstone for Colonel Gowen<p style="text-align: justify;">I was only at Saint Luke's Episcopal Graveyard in Germantown, Pennsylvania, once, and this was many, many years ago. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I was there to locate the grave of George Washington Gowen, the 48th Pennsylvania's fourth commanding officer, following James Nagle, Joshua Sigfried, and Henry Pleasants. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I thought I located it. . .but wasn't entirely sure. I found a plot for the "Gowen" family, at least, and I thought I saw the headstone for George but, again, I could not be certain. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Surely, I thought, for someone born into a very prominent family and for a colonel who was killed in action leading his regiment into battle, George Gowen would have a large and easily recognizable headstone. But such was not the case. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">As it turns out, his grave marker had fallen into great disrepair and was hardly recognizable. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This is why I was so happy, several weeks ago, to see that Frank Jastrzembski, founder of Shrouded Veterans, and working with Saint Luke's Episcopal Church in Germantown, saw to it that Colonel Gowen get a new headstone.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTQ1y4JDFi7aXSrOqRilIqDsDu6bTPHLwDvW68tdCMBrE8c9pEWKzSMPKs64buZWCUQ8YwUAhWlvUekADya_A8XnU9DKyapamPqxWUQjmEsQOQ17HM24mt381_mw51yGo2jinBo6IYKFpVPzziug1PHCN6YZTVpRxcsIgocPgmxsIAqyeZm0wRjAgWMA/s2048/Gowen%20Grave%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1716" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTQ1y4JDFi7aXSrOqRilIqDsDu6bTPHLwDvW68tdCMBrE8c9pEWKzSMPKs64buZWCUQ8YwUAhWlvUekADya_A8XnU9DKyapamPqxWUQjmEsQOQ17HM24mt381_mw51yGo2jinBo6IYKFpVPzziug1PHCN6YZTVpRxcsIgocPgmxsIAqyeZm0wRjAgWMA/w335-h400/Gowen%20Grave%201.jpg" width="335" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i>A New Headstone for Colonel Gowen. . .</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_8OCqvyQvYzP37hIHEyRFc7CE_zSw8v2PmIXHxxXaE41Eh2EFBX2VSTeMCwuUiRCYI1eR7XSSDKq1kNBTu6LBYm3uAotudaUvk9TvcCVgVABjBwOFYa9miGkdnuE-9u2Wr6gDn7EN13QjpCzimdiiFQbJXVtG9jv89zYlRGw-5ls_3jRz8TibvjSlcA/s640/Gowen%20Grave%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_8OCqvyQvYzP37hIHEyRFc7CE_zSw8v2PmIXHxxXaE41Eh2EFBX2VSTeMCwuUiRCYI1eR7XSSDKq1kNBTu6LBYm3uAotudaUvk9TvcCVgVABjBwOFYa9miGkdnuE-9u2Wr6gDn7EN13QjpCzimdiiFQbJXVtG9jv89zYlRGw-5ls_3jRz8TibvjSlcA/s320/Gowen%20Grave%202.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i>Stands now in front of his original stone. </i></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Twenty-five-year-old George Washington Gowen, the son of Irish immigrants, was killed in action on April 2, 1865, during the 48th's final battle action of the Civil War at Petersburg, Virginia. Sergeant Patrick Monahan, himself an immigrant from Ireland and Medal of Honor recipient for his heroics at Petersburg in June 1864, remembered Gowen's death vividly: <b><i>"I saw. Col. Gowen step to the side of Sam Beddall, one of the Color Sergeants, lean over, and speak to him. My impression was that Sam was hurt, and I stepped to the side of the Colonel to take the colors, if such was the case. The Colonel straightened up, and I moved a step out of his way, when a shell, hot from the mouth of one of the rebel guns of Fort Mahone, exploded in our midst. The Colonel fell on his face; I turned him over on his back, and saw that half of his face was carried away. He was killed instantly. Myself and two others of the regiment carried him back to the rebel picket line, where we were relieved by others, and returned to the front; joined the colors, and entered Fort Mahone by way of the embrasure from which the shell had been fired that killed Colonel Gowen."</i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">His remains were later returned to his native Germantown for burial. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the early 1900s, the veterans of the 48th placed an impressive statue of Gowen near the spot where he was killed. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://48thpennsylvania.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-48th150th-regiments-new-commander.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more on the life and death of Colonel George Washington Gowen</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfh1M1AIXDjknzFrEt-Af_4B9vzIRc2Fdp-QJj17C3eL-2amD_Yaor675l4G8cvSBAaEuF16cIHFhYD2Q0BIm7AmauIPTzcK13tTYsyP7cI427E1108nqvawDWuOhhUVSxJ1jbwJKhZSfhV90nae2N6tUoQTS4h_wb1qRJSBGuZNv5oLxxiAAjLSTe0g/s254/48%20PA%20Gowen,%20George%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="179" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfh1M1AIXDjknzFrEt-Af_4B9vzIRc2Fdp-QJj17C3eL-2amD_Yaor675l4G8cvSBAaEuF16cIHFhYD2Q0BIm7AmauIPTzcK13tTYsyP7cI427E1108nqvawDWuOhhUVSxJ1jbwJKhZSfhV90nae2N6tUoQTS4h_wb1qRJSBGuZNv5oLxxiAAjLSTe0g/w282-h400/48%20PA%20Gowen,%20George%202.jpg" width="282" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i>Colonel George W. Gowen</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i>(as commander of Company C and as a pre-war civil mining engineer,</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i>Gowen played a leading role in the tunneling of the 48th's mine at Petersburg) </i></b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfT9dd-66EYHP9I8fSaBluXhRZnduoIrVrj4nQSwgcN0F2ynKvlIhaniquSpGskhExIkE9sLLKLNPzE7HpKYnavl8AyAd2EExqyjVxZV2sUfF0LWKQMrcE8q9nxZHL4gCUWMxpll8glVc0_dP8voSuTQpqNm2PKDYZKjXdpBNhMMaNL3jZpmu78ofVQA/s320/Gowen%20Monument.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfT9dd-66EYHP9I8fSaBluXhRZnduoIrVrj4nQSwgcN0F2ynKvlIhaniquSpGskhExIkE9sLLKLNPzE7HpKYnavl8AyAd2EExqyjVxZV2sUfF0LWKQMrcE8q9nxZHL4gCUWMxpll8glVc0_dP8voSuTQpqNm2PKDYZKjXdpBNhMMaNL3jZpmu78ofVQA/w300-h400/Gowen%20Monument.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i>The 48th Pennsylvania Monument at Petersburg </i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i>features a bronze statue of George W. Gowen. </i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><i><a href="https://48thpennsylvania.blogspot.com/2007/04/return-to-petersburg.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more on the 48th's monument at Petersburg. . . </a><br /></i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Many, many thanks to Frank Jastrzembski and Saint Luke's Episcopal Church for seeing to the placement of a new headstone for Colonel George Gowen! <div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Now. . .I will need to make a return trip to Germantown! <br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p></div>John David Hoptakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521690201528852944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-53516775066354154242021-06-12T07:35:00.000-04:002021-06-12T07:35:00.596-04:00A "New" Face of the Forty-Eighth: Corporal Henry W. Krater, Company I<p style="text-align: justify;">Although it does not happen all too often, every now and then, I get to see a "new" face of the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry. A few weeks ago, was one of those "every now and then" moments. Checking my email, I was happy to see an email from a Great-Great-Great Grandson of Henry W. Krater, a corporal who served for the duration of the conflict in Company I. Krater was a lifelong resident of my small hometown of Orwigsburg. Because of this, and in addition to knowing his name from the regimental rosters, I many-a-time visited his gravesite in St. John's Church Cemetery, just a few blocks away from the house where I grew up. And now, after so many years, I got to see photographs of the man taken during and after the Civil War, to finally put a face to the name. <br /></p><p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis8vqwPh1nnAyVqAjgPAdtSfl3ZL_Kv-vTvEwDJkBONYG1y02v4bIyD3LOoyBAIxKONXhmoI7XPslZOmgrJTxLPeroXMqcRQi4LZsVdPEMTuE4qrRLQNNqf1O2eRcGO88neF8CxzYcpBqW/s2048/48+PA+Krater+Henry+W+1+JPEG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1588" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis8vqwPh1nnAyVqAjgPAdtSfl3ZL_Kv-vTvEwDJkBONYG1y02v4bIyD3LOoyBAIxKONXhmoI7XPslZOmgrJTxLPeroXMqcRQi4LZsVdPEMTuE4qrRLQNNqf1O2eRcGO88neF8CxzYcpBqW/w310-h400/48+PA+Krater+Henry+W+1+JPEG.jpg" title="Corporal Henry W. Krater Courtesy of Mr. Mike Wynosky" width="310" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Corporal Henry W. Krater<br />Company I, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry<br />(Courtesy of Mr. Mike Wynosky)</td></tr></tbody></table></p><div style="text-align: justify;">Born on April 9, 1837, in Orwigsburg, Henry Krater was a son of John Krater and Sarah Deibert Krater. He turned 24 just a few days before the Civil War's opening shots at Fort Sumter and in September 1861, he enlisted, along with a brother, Charles, into the ranks of Company I, 48th Pennsylvania. In height, he stood 5'7"; had a "Light" Complexion, Brown Eyes, and Dark Hair. His occupation was identified as cigar maker. He was married--having wed Catherine Slenker--sometime prior to the outbreak of war, and had, at the time of his enlistment, at least one child, a one-year-old son named Clinton Morris Krater. Another son, born in December 1864, would be given the impressive name of Preston Sherman Burnside Krater, his middle two names were presumably in honor of two of Henry's favorite generals. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Henry Krater returned home to Orwigsburg following his enlistment and remained there for the rest of his very long life. He and his wife had six more children in the years after the war; their final child, a daughter named Bertha Mae was born in 1881 and lived 95 years, passing away in 1977. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A member of the Gowen G.A.R. Post, Henry Krater was active in veterans' affairs and would be a regular attendee at the annual reunions held by the survivors of the 48th Pennsylvania. He led a long life and was active, according his obituary, up until the date of his death. On April 11, 1926, Henry was visiting his son, John, at John's home on West Market Street, Orwigsburg. Sometime during the visit, while in the backyard, the aged Civil War veteran suffered a sudden stroke, collapsing to the ground. Borne inside, Henry died at 10:30 a.m. the following day, April 12, 1926--the 65th Anniversary of the Civil War's opening shots at Fort Sumter. Henry Krater was 89. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A large and impressive funeral was held to honor his life; in attendance were seven Civil War veterans--including two of his former comrades from Company I, 48th PA, Jacob Gongloff and Thomas J. Reed. The Civil War veterans were chauffeured in automobiles. Spanish-American War veterans also attended in good number, and present also was Orwigsburg's Liberty Band. A longtime member of Saint John's Church, Henry W. Krater was laid to rest with full military honors in the church's cemetery on Washington Street, the same cemetery where, coincidentally, lay the remains of the very first soldier of the 48th Pennsylvania to die during the Civil War--William Millet--who died at age 20 in September 1861, and who had been buried 65 already years prior to the internment of Krater. Upon his death, Henry W. Krater left behind seven children, <i>forty </i>grandchildren, and eleven great-grandchildren.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">My thanks go out to Mr. Mike Wynosky for reaching out to me and for sending along the images of Henry Krater. It is always great to finally put a face to the name. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCCP8WCd7bOR_lRW64jOsz4tJQEI2SfdpVjNQggLKelTri4H6sl_pigbFcvmFMaR4TPqD1zwZGRImQsnHxGhZZwNhtsZ91qiIckyQXLQASSC1Kh-zj3-8hxoKkVQv60ShY0oyeVCavIvFG/s1965/48+PA+Krater+Henry+W+2+JPEG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1965" data-original-width="736" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCCP8WCd7bOR_lRW64jOsz4tJQEI2SfdpVjNQggLKelTri4H6sl_pigbFcvmFMaR4TPqD1zwZGRImQsnHxGhZZwNhtsZ91qiIckyQXLQASSC1Kh-zj3-8hxoKkVQv60ShY0oyeVCavIvFG/w240-h640/48+PA+Krater+Henry+W+2+JPEG.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Post-War Image of Henry W. Krater<br />(Courtesy of Mike Wynosky) </td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><br /></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx4RDVwZu4LfDW9J7B7r0G1oP0OtKXgL_JkHvwIlyJAIG9r-VC3otLc4M0MfdkDR5pH1JU1e9krh1Ua5c1089fEj9YBMT8fPH_45YcY227-sO5vvJMbKJ1eP3afKi-0y3w8UEDvq7NepRP/s1024/Krater+Henry.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="1024" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx4RDVwZu4LfDW9J7B7r0G1oP0OtKXgL_JkHvwIlyJAIG9r-VC3otLc4M0MfdkDR5pH1JU1e9krh1Ua5c1089fEj9YBMT8fPH_45YcY227-sO5vvJMbKJ1eP3afKi-0y3w8UEDvq7NepRP/w400-h279/Krater+Henry.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Grave of Henry W. Krater (left) and his wife, Catherine,<br />who preceded him in death by eleven years.<br />St. John's Cemetery, Orwigsburg<br />(Image from findagrave.com) </td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><p></p>John David Hoptakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521690201528852944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-77364559081181623732021-02-27T08:24:00.003-05:002023-05-21T12:27:06.006-04:00Colorized Photographs of 48th Pennsylvania Soldiers <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi13IoKjUlKmcj0K9S05FnY4B3bFtXvFPbnpn5rMGipFSaKTFk29CnLYsyZrtW35a_XSwpJQdIeWNY51SC6CxRWDUil4fyE8xcA03-avqb3NMGQhGSdw8Irw4k-gWko22K5YCEQ-oPbcAdQ/s1976/48+PA+Gilmour+Joseph+Colorized+%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1976" data-original-width="1265" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi13IoKjUlKmcj0K9S05FnY4B3bFtXvFPbnpn5rMGipFSaKTFk29CnLYsyZrtW35a_XSwpJQdIeWNY51SC6CxRWDUil4fyE8xcA03-avqb3NMGQhGSdw8Irw4k-gWko22K5YCEQ-oPbcAdQ/w256-h400/48+PA+Gilmour+Joseph+Colorized+%25282%2529.jpg" width="256" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Colorized Image of Major Joseph Gilmour<br />48th PA</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">Last night, a number of my friends in the Civil War world shared on their social media accounts photographs of historical figures from the Civil War Era that were animated, or "brought to life," via technology by <a href="www.myheritage.com " target="_blank">My Heritage</a></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Most were of generals; some of civilians. Some of these animated photographs were rather compelling; others were, well. . .</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In addition to animating historic photographs, My Heritage also colorizes images from the past. For several years now, adding color to old black-and-white or sepia-toned Civil War CDVs or tintypes has become increasingly ever more popular. While the verdict on this technology seems evenly split between those who like it and those who do not, I thought I would create an account and upload some photographs of 48th Pennsylvania soldiers from my collection to better see what these soldiers <i>may </i>have looked like in person. I also uploaded a photograph of Nicholas "Nick" Biddle of Pottsville, who, when marching off to war with the First Defenders in April 1861, shed some of the first blood of the American Civil War. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">When done well, colorizing historic photographs can be a powerful teaching tool in that it can better humanize, if you will, people from the past. There are many who simply cannot envision past events in anything other than black-and-white or sepia tones. When not done well, however,. . .they are simply not done well. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I uploaded many images of 48th Pennsylvania soldiers; not all of them "worked" in the colorization process. But some did. The colorized images below I found compelling, especially the ones of Gilmour, Maidenfort, and Biddle. The stories of several of these soldiers can be found by clicking on their names. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, here they are for your perusal. . . </p><p style="text-align: justify;">What are your thoughts on these? </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">(The historic images are either from the Library of Congress or my personal collection; the colorized images were colorized by www.myheritage.com) </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://48thpennsylvania.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-biographical-portrait-of-general.html" target="_blank">Brigadier General James Nagle</a><br />Organizer and First Commander, 48th PA</span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeVdzu5n3IJZmBHtxNvUl0RYuEOsC4yRI3avclULXMpThX_SIajelVcRKrbzD99Ow67RR5WTR-aF9X3TiBk028CwwrSUs0RCwFeWhjC0Ysro9ux2reXQJO0Kwss8BGZ0R-PKXny2u25o5v/s2048/48+PA+Nagle+James+Colorized+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Curtis Pollock, standing left; <br /><a href="https://48thpennsylvania.blogspot.com/2016/05/killed-at-spotsylvania-lt-henry-clay.html" target="_blank">Lt. Henry Clay Jackson</a>, standing right)</div></div><br /></div></div><br /></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO-qVPru5sDZdRw8CirR0AGZ4DmrVGWGnrjvj00d2ORjH6GxPHhW4A1CeOlIaaz5mZyT09w1J4d9RRpfAnys1-Rv8TWuwCuWJuVV4X2ia-Ag4EyvkrIl20JbGFIKT2D7O5sEqlwuJeY8_L/s600/48+PA+Bosbyshell+Jackson+Pollock.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="372" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO-qVPru5sDZdRw8CirR0AGZ4DmrVGWGnrjvj00d2ORjH6GxPHhW4A1CeOlIaaz5mZyT09w1J4d9RRpfAnys1-Rv8TWuwCuWJuVV4X2ia-Ag4EyvkrIl20JbGFIKT2D7O5sEqlwuJeY8_L/w396-h640/48+PA+Bosbyshell+Jackson+Pollock.jpg" width="396" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2hCn10RJlMacHqXbg8pid9gUIQMsm_czTGAY-adLrJVsIuvtZ-vqhU1bPm16id7AyLcxHH-el_HXkJ3GYlfPHcgwdygKDJgNvKTJVhGwVgbjKMIBVKVn1tpz6HpQwPQLsAVv_oDlzKSQ1/s1056/48+PA+Company+G+Officers+1863+Colorized+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="730" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2hCn10RJlMacHqXbg8pid9gUIQMsm_czTGAY-adLrJVsIuvtZ-vqhU1bPm16id7AyLcxHH-el_HXkJ3GYlfPHcgwdygKDJgNvKTJVhGwVgbjKMIBVKVn1tpz6HpQwPQLsAVv_oDlzKSQ1/w442-h640/48+PA+Company+G+Officers+1863+Colorized+%25282%2529.jpg" width="442" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Unidentified Corporal<br />Company G</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1565" data-original-width="1411" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmq8R3iukObj_66pFxhj5Ewer3yM0eh-c26cSoAImnu9O7SA6VJa7O5-eeps5JTi_68fq-052By5MvtDNENVzKC1wmXGxenLkYeZ_1jZCvVMYXHvyBmomfzchi424AD8FF2vK4U1nwIXli/w578-h640/48+PA+Company+G+Unknown+3+Colorized+%25282%2529.jpg" width="578" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://48thpennsylvania.blogspot.com/2011/04/profiles-lieutenant-joseph-edwards-co-i.html" target="_blank">Lieutenant Joseph Edwards</a><br />Company I </b></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1968" data-original-width="1160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIdJFu9gD25pnrkwUhRvQZ_J0jAMRMHOHfesACiFsD1E4UtuW3Zuf3ocokn2YZlkc6bDG_yLF7mtbsyKUHZq4kAfN8cJVuShga9Hp-3m9aphdGsGBPNzeWkh-Xq0eSlTWpCeM4lxS2Pa3p/w378-h640/48+PA+Edwards+Joseph+Colorized+%25282%2529.jpg" width="378" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://48thpennsylvania.blogspot.com/2007/01/profiles-major-joseph-gilmour.html" target="_blank">Major Joseph Gilmour</a><br />48th Pennsylvania </b></span></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1976" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgavYZGx_Sj1xlXCoahngVKjJli6OBkxg-6s6jtPsZdu-PWRI3LFS13aBTixlFumxvUA4b46yvHs4M-7vDGK4b4hvQLMc4WwWFoDW99Is_Agb3r9L3JprPkyL7VMUZBjOkd0pCk_vetIstf/w410-h640/48+PA+Gilmour+Joseph+Colorized+%25282%2529.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Captain Daniel Kauffman<br />Company A</b></span></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWsxZlZ0MCafoIN1Ri3YUq2wNqXZjtNOJIqQaDim0MQ-t2aoWuHqGsHmqSccQdT9ZdqReR5pFfE_DJP09r33iY_5rx_StaYhVerJPUpLbXPXNFJHf60G-TfdCoIAZhT4m73kD1xZ0lTK6O/s400/48+PA+Kauffman%252C+Capt.+Daniel+Co.+A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="364" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWsxZlZ0MCafoIN1Ri3YUq2wNqXZjtNOJIqQaDim0MQ-t2aoWuHqGsHmqSccQdT9ZdqReR5pFfE_DJP09r33iY_5rx_StaYhVerJPUpLbXPXNFJHf60G-TfdCoIAZhT4m73kD1xZ0lTK6O/w582-h640/48+PA+Kauffman%252C+Capt.+Daniel+Co.+A.jpg" width="582" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIQgEHbPX_ruuMwFEC73tbfyfWQnojDtSwAaktFnq9k2Phz34-j6sDi1zHQUfHv6F2br4A7oyoJxhxdQLAcKXy7b5cYdcNjm1KbyYOvznKiaE5gRqqwi2xMd-g4J1QNW64Ekmbd-fePanu/s341/48+PA+Kauffman+Daniel+Colorized+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="341" data-original-width="287" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIQgEHbPX_ruuMwFEC73tbfyfWQnojDtSwAaktFnq9k2Phz34-j6sDi1zHQUfHv6F2br4A7oyoJxhxdQLAcKXy7b5cYdcNjm1KbyYOvznKiaE5gRqqwi2xMd-g4J1QNW64Ekmbd-fePanu/w538-h640/48+PA+Kauffman+Daniel+Colorized+%25282%2529.jpg" width="538" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>John David Hoptakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521690201528852944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-29709163941522981242020-09-06T11:50:00.003-04:002020-09-06T11:50:53.264-04:00Let's Work Together To Help Take Care Of The Presbyterian Cemetery in Pottsville! Donate Today.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="625" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCt-IFSpQ9zSFYk5guhwaRleNFcFgtZ0-wFFgJIeoOZA0_6NnwlUFmFLDim42TM2HEUXCUTE016JpopUVvCBiPhmrgA_UHe6neVfKxWrbgPS8QzzEXbiBf9ldByeTgtT5Zgo48nB50bnHb/w416-h625/IMG_3657.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="416" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Grave of Joseph Gilmour<br />Major, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry<br />Presbyterian Cemetery, Pottsville</span><br /><br /><br />* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>It is easily one of my favorite places. . . </p><p>A quiet, hillside cemetery in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.I have walked the uneven and ascending ground there among the silent, and in some places broken stones many a time. And to this day, whenever I make a visit to Schuylkill County to spend some time with my family, I try my best to make a stop at this historic graveyard, if only for a few minutes. </p><p>Once inside the Presbyterian Cemetery at Tenth and Howard Streets in Pottsville, one is simply surrounded by history; Civil War history in particular. And once inside, one can imagine this as once a beautiful, Civil War-era graveyard. With a little imagination, one can see the horse-drawn hearses entering the gates, with mourners dressed in black lined along the brick walkways as the community turned out to honor its dead. You might even imagine the military salutes fired over some of the graves. </p><p>B<span style="font-family: inherit;">uried within the Presbyterian Cemetery are some of Schuylkill County's most noteworthy Civil War heroes. Brigadier General James Nagle is laid to rest there. In 1842, Nagle organized the Washington Artillerists, a militia company he would captain during the War with Mexico from 1846-1848. During the American Civil War, Nagle raised and commanded no less than four regiments of Pennsylvania Volunteers, including the famed 48th Pennsylvania Infantry. Nagle also commanded a brigade in the thickest of the fights at 2nd Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. The strain for this service took a toll and in August 1866, Nagle died at the age of 44. The funeral held for him at the Presbyterian Cemetery was one of the largest ever witnessed in the city of Pottsville. </span></p><p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh4hIIZAGU-58w9s2KSd67phzaGR8YqtJntzodJXxXeoPg1FwxGQY6-IQlbgcuyNUuXWpDiDqHjc6_HFqO_OYKn4yo437YZZYE2qDdFcYGtcEm-E60Yf3huCg226nu6PWTE8owRtayzfFL/s2048/IMG_3668+%25282%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1366" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh4hIIZAGU-58w9s2KSd67phzaGR8YqtJntzodJXxXeoPg1FwxGQY6-IQlbgcuyNUuXWpDiDqHjc6_HFqO_OYKn4yo437YZZYE2qDdFcYGtcEm-E60Yf3huCg226nu6PWTE8owRtayzfFL/w333-h500/IMG_3668+%25282%2529.JPG" width="333" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Grave of General James Nagle</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">All four of James Nagle's brothers fought in the Civil War as well; and three of them lie buried nearby their general-brother: Daniel, Philip, and Levi Nagle. Buried nearby, too, is <a href="https://48thpennsylvania.blogspot.com/2016/11/discovering-emerguildo-marquiz-mexican.html" target="_blank">Emerguildo Marquiz</a>. In 1847, after American forces entered Mexico City, young, eight-year-old Emerguildo was orphaned. He attached himself to the camp of the Washington Artillerists and when the company returned home to Pottsville in 1848, Emerguildo came along as well. He was adopted by James Nagle and raised as one of his own children. Like his adopted dad, Emerguildo served in the Civil War; first in the 6th Pennsylvania Infantry, then as a bugler in the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry. When Nagle was promoted to brigadier general, Emerguildo joined his staff as the brigade bugler. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://48thpennsylvania.blogspot.com/2009/11/pottsvilles-robert-hampton-ramsey.html" target="_blank">Robert Ramsey</a>, who served on the staff of Major General George Thomas--the "Rock" of Chickamauga--is also interred in the Presbyterian Cemetery. Ramsey served faithfully and well throughout the conflict, but died of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">laryngeal phthsis at the much-too-young age of 38 in 1876.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Medal of Honor recipient Jacob Frick, Colonel of the 129th Pennsylvania Infantry, who in late June 1863 ordered the burning of the Wrightsville Bridge during the Gettysburg Campaign, is laid to rest in the Presbyterian Cemetery, as are the remains of <a href="https://48thpennsylvania.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-brave-and-most-gallant-soldier-lewis.html" target="_blank">Major Lewis Martin</a>, of the 96th Pennsylvania, and <a href="https://48thpennsylvania.blogspot.com/2007/01/profiles-major-joseph-gilmour.html" target="_blank">Joseph Gilmour</a>, of the 48th Pennsylvania, both of whom died in combat during the Civil War; the former during the Battle of Crampton's Gap, and the latter at Armstrong Farm, near Cold Harbor, Virginia. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are so many more <a href="https://48thpennsylvania.blogspot.com/2007/01/walk-through-pottsvilles-presbyterian.html" target="_blank">stories to tell</a> of <a href="https://48thpennsylvania.blogspot.com/2007/01/walk-through-pottsvilles-presbyterian_19.html" target="_blank">those interred </a>in the Presbyterian Cemetery, but the pressing story of today is the condition of the cemetery. Sadly, it has fallen into disrepair, despite the best efforts of Presbyterian Church leaders and members. And now, they are calling for help. Money is needed to help in the maintenance and upkeep of the Cemetery, especially $1,500.00 that is needed to remove a dead tree. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I think we can<i> easily</i> raise that much. . . In fact, I think we can do so much more! </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let's show that we still care and that we still remember and honor those who served. Let us work together to raise the money needed, and then some. As Tom Shay, a friend of mine and fellow Schuylkill County Civil War historian, so eloquently explained: <i>"You can tell a lot about a community by how they treat their dead, how well they upkeep their cemeteries, and respect the ground on which loved ones stood and mourned the deceased. The care and preservation of the Presbyterian Cemetery is an ongoing challenge to ensure its continuous upkeep and protection. We are always seeking help from caring people who realize the wonderful history that is contained in the stories that the stones can tell."</i></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://unitedpresbyterian.weebly.com/persbyterian-cemetery.html" target="_blank">DONATE TODAY</a></span></i></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">For additional information on the effort to remove this tree and to help maintain the historic Presbyterian Cemetery, watch <a href="https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/schuylkill-county/church-looking-for-help-to-keep-cemetery-maintained/523-51d84b89-86ec-4ad4-8b6e-1c481b554b4b">this news report</a> from WNEP-16, and <a href="https://www.pahomepage.com/top-stories/maintaining-sacred-grounds-at-a-pottsville-cemetery/">this one</a> from PA NewsReport. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">The tree that needs to be removed. . .</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkJHIa2mFQuuoehC8mT-SZld4jwep_Gb53Pgn35Bq1CvxIVMX7Evfl2VCF9gYFElo4Deh4CTpVL6Bh8s5XqdGA7CvD2ZYJuHnRPvz2C4M1E2PT3_wSfgvCkXHXejJ6HbJ3YnbSAVCwEsNS/s1067/img-2253_orig.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="800" height="625" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkJHIa2mFQuuoehC8mT-SZld4jwep_Gb53Pgn35Bq1CvxIVMX7Evfl2VCF9gYFElo4Deh4CTpVL6Bh8s5XqdGA7CvD2ZYJuHnRPvz2C4M1E2PT3_wSfgvCkXHXejJ6HbJ3YnbSAVCwEsNS/w469-h625/img-2253_orig.jpg" width="469" /></a></div><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p>John David Hoptakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521690201528852944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-3832177625522278632020-08-20T04:56:00.002-04:002020-08-20T05:11:21.700-04:00Soldier Story: Corporal Richard C. Ryan, Company C, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry<p>I usually check my email just once a day, almost always early in the morning. While most days the only messages I receive are from stores or companies offering some kind of special savings deal, every now and then I am pleasantly surprised to discover an email from a descendant of a soldier who served in the 48th Pennsylvania. Even better is when they share an image of their soldier-ancestor. This happened just a few days ago when I received a message from a descendant of Corporal Richard C. Ryan, of Company C, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry. </p><p>This is his story. Sadly, it had a tragic ending. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_nex_1sanQ5-w4wpewOg42APxo7LSgjMngbA7HfcZGKtL4pCQ17OAx0kn1aZIoGuAPFSLjLoJgPQcTcxBuQiED3uEIgH7C_WaEKWGwJnUFTpzszaCU0U3s4iszs-Hn5g1Ru5L4dyv_6fC/s1280/48+PA+Ryan+Richard+Co.+C+from+Lori+Ryan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_nex_1sanQ5-w4wpewOg42APxo7LSgjMngbA7HfcZGKtL4pCQ17OAx0kn1aZIoGuAPFSLjLoJgPQcTcxBuQiED3uEIgH7C_WaEKWGwJnUFTpzszaCU0U3s4iszs-Hn5g1Ru5L4dyv_6fC/w384-h512/48+PA+Ryan+Richard+Co.+C+from+Lori+Ryan.jpg" width="384" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Post War Image of Corporal Richard C. Ryan</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">[Courtesy of Ms. Lori Ryan] </span></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Richard C. Ryan was born in Ireland on May 10, 1842. Upon immigrating to the United States--and like many others who came from Ireland--young Ryan found work mining coal in Schuylkill County. He was not quite twenty-two years old when, on March 1, 1864, he was mustered into the ranks of Company C, 48th Pennsylvania, taking up arms in defense of his adopted country. In height, he stood 5'6 1/2"; had a "Dark" Complexion, with grey eyes and black hair. Ryan served with the 48th throughout the hard fighting of 1864; from the tangled chaos of the Wilderness to the sun baked trenches of Petersburg. It is likely that because of his background as an experienced miner he took part in the tunneling of the Petersburg Mine, an endeavor performed not by all the soldiers in the 48th, but only by those who were experienced coal miners. Ryan must have impressed his superiors, for on May 21, 1865, he was promoted from private to corporal. Honorably mustered out of service when the regiment disbanded on July 17, 1865, Corporal Richard Ryan returned home. </p><p>During the post-war years, Ryan took up residence in the borough of Mount Carmel in Northumberland County. There, he was actively involved in veterans' affairs and in local politics. He also married and in the early 1880s, his wife Mary gave birth to at least three children: Catherine (b. 1880); Anna May (b. 1882); and Richard (b. 1884). </p><p>Sadly, these children would grow up without their father. </p><p>Not known are the reasons why he did it, but on February 24, 1885, Richard Ryan--this Civil War veteran, active in local affairs, and young father of three--took his own life. He was only 42 years old. </p><p>As reported in the local papers, Ryan drank five drachms of laudanum. He lingered for several hours before finally succumbing to the lethal overdose of this opiate that was widely prescribed, provided, and used by Civil War soldiers and veterans. His remains were laid to rest in Saint Mary's Cemetery, Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_BhLrbFENe3f08tLVR2UmlAJjuGXHG8CKeJWJ4e9kK1sHBIL09gNiTW6dgW9MurpZlTFoN2Pmo6Md4FaAZ-7JgeLFtKHLxnOqWiKcqtHbBhZhh2-No5O1V5uCibZuqan8uDKIEszMpwDY/s2670/48+PA+Ryan+Richard+Co.+C+Obituary.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1178" data-original-width="2670" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_BhLrbFENe3f08tLVR2UmlAJjuGXHG8CKeJWJ4e9kK1sHBIL09gNiTW6dgW9MurpZlTFoN2Pmo6Md4FaAZ-7JgeLFtKHLxnOqWiKcqtHbBhZhh2-No5O1V5uCibZuqan8uDKIEszMpwDY/w512-h226/48+PA+Ryan+Richard+Co.+C+Obituary.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">From the Altoona <i>Times</i>, February 26, 1885</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5kzd1hXRUn6kfgl9wWQKs8U2cKp9vtA-GM7s0OrQ-vo9aCPph1V3xnUDA_GaSgC32SCiqoSAVtIv0COj57nZ_-AtrYCg_chJaEA_3LBqv55psZnzUKV1YeLj8QL10Zb56hCVhQgyMkjk8/s2939/48+PA+Ryan+Richard+Wilkes+Barre+Times+Leader+2.26.1885.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1070" data-original-width="2939" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5kzd1hXRUn6kfgl9wWQKs8U2cKp9vtA-GM7s0OrQ-vo9aCPph1V3xnUDA_GaSgC32SCiqoSAVtIv0COj57nZ_-AtrYCg_chJaEA_3LBqv55psZnzUKV1YeLj8QL10Zb56hCVhQgyMkjk8/w512-h186/48+PA+Ryan+Richard+Wilkes+Barre+Times+Leader+2.26.1885.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">From the Wilkes-Barre <i>Times Leader</i>, February 26, 1885</span></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgIgr2zl2jWdtzboXQJAqF_EUjGP5U7S_ts8w_FFzp_EtJ9BygKgpqYSEPftUOkMpvT-45NEYTlBJdN4wMVOLSgL092OyR9sHkYWfuRo1UdW3AgsQypXrVQHmCzlA_3phWQF983eVazf7z/s640/Ryan%252C+Richard+Mount+Carmel+findagrave.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgIgr2zl2jWdtzboXQJAqF_EUjGP5U7S_ts8w_FFzp_EtJ9BygKgpqYSEPftUOkMpvT-45NEYTlBJdN4wMVOLSgL092OyR9sHkYWfuRo1UdW3AgsQypXrVQHmCzlA_3phWQF983eVazf7z/w512-h384/Ryan%252C+Richard+Mount+Carmel+findagrave.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The grave of Richard C. Ryan</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Saint Mary's Cemetery, Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">[from findagrave.com]</span></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>*Thank you to Lori Ryan for sharing the image of her Civil War ancestor and for allowing me to tell his story. </p><p><br /></p>John David Hoptakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521690201528852944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-1072412666700206262020-07-24T06:56:00.001-04:002020-07-24T06:56:27.933-04:00The Story of the Allison Brothers Told In July 2020 Issue of "America's Civil War." Thank you to <i>America's Civil War</i> for featuring the story of Agnes Allison and her sons in the July 2020 issue. <div><br /></div><div>Please read about this story of service and sacrifice: <a href="https://www.historynet.com/a-mothers-sacrifice-four-sons-die-for-the-sake-of-the-union.htm">A Mother's Sacrifice</a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.historynet.com/a-mothers-sacrifice-four-sons-die-for-the-sake-of-the-union.htm" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBS1aIERWNUFn9PGtTu-H_pHF4gm4XVpY7-A6MsZqQix-iBUABRC3HqrdQagB0IkHscjQGaFyMCAa3kvhK6QPosUsWG_NT0pfd4PUIBTfSq1gOBs98QgMtq1xH4OtYBS_dy_TITuWu_i3m/s500/Allison+Brothers.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="303" data-original-width="500" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBS1aIERWNUFn9PGtTu-H_pHF4gm4XVpY7-A6MsZqQix-iBUABRC3HqrdQagB0IkHscjQGaFyMCAa3kvhK6QPosUsWG_NT0pfd4PUIBTfSq1gOBs98QgMtq1xH4OtYBS_dy_TITuWu_i3m/w500-h304/Allison+Brothers.png" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>John David Hoptakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521690201528852944noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-22578734790374641832020-04-14T06:51:00.000-04:002020-04-14T06:51:17.067-04:00A "Brave and Most Gallant Soldier:" Lewis Martin--First Defender and Major, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry, Killed in Action at Crampton's Gap<div align="center">
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Lewis Martin was among the first volunteers for the Union. A civil engineer, he was elected surveyor of Schuylkill County just a few years before the outbreak of the Civil War in the spring of 1861. Highly esteemed by the people of Pottsville, Martin was thirty years old. In 1859, he married Minerva Smith of Hamburg, PA, and the young couple was soon blessed with two baby boys. Minerva was pregnant with their third child when her husband marched off to war in April 1861. Martin was a member of the National Light Infantry, a Pottsville militia company formed in 1831. On April 11, 1861, one day before the war's opening salvos rang out over Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, the National Light Infantry wired Secretary of War Simon Cameron to offer the services of the company should they be needed. Cameron responded by ordering them to Washington. In 1868, Cameron acknowledged that the National Light Infantry was the very first company of northern volunteers to offer its services to the Union. When on April 18, the National Light Infantry, along with the Washington Artillerists (also of Pottsville), the Ringgold Light Artillery of Reading, the Allen Infantry of Allentown, and the Logan Guards of Lewistown, arrived in Washington, they were the first northern volunteers to reach the capital, and thus went down in history as the First Defenders.<br />
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Lewis Martin wrote frequently to his family in Pottsville, especially to his mother. On April 28, just ten days after arriving in Washington, Martin wrote: "It is possible as I have before acknowledged that I did very wrong in leaving home under existing circumstances. I can hardly convince myself that I did not then. . . . True it may be said I owe a duty to my family which is paramount to that of any other worldly one, but what if all would make use of the same argument[?], who would there be to rescue the honor of Our Country and its flag, which when dishonored, dishonors its People." Hoping to assuage any anxieties that he might be killed, Martin concluded that when he left home, he did so "with the firm conviction that I will see you all again, and I still hold on to it, and every day almost adds to my belief that it is not intended that we are going to engage in shedding the blood of our own countrymen." "I may be mistaken in the South," wrote Martin, "but I believe they are not going to rush much farther in their suicidal course, for they certainly did not bargain for the Union of sentiment they now find in the North, and with which they are bringing themselves in contact."<br />
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When the three month terms of service of the National Light Infantry expired in late July 1861, Martin and most of the members of the company reenlisted to serve a three-year term. This time they were mustered in as Company A, 96th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Lewis Martin was their captain. Promoted a short time later to major, Martin survived the deadly battles of the Peninsula and Seven Days' campaigns. Martin continued to send a steady stream of letters home (which are currently in the collections of the United States Military History Institute in Carlisle, Pennsylvania). With the regiment encamped near Washington in early September 1862, Martin's mother decided to pay her son a surprise visit. Sadly, what she did not know was that the 96th was, by the time she arrived, already on the move. . .marching westward through Maryland in pursuit of Robert E. Lee's invading Army of Northern Virginia. She traveled as far as Rockville, hoping to see her son, before making the long journey back home to Pottsville. Learning of his mother's attempt to see him, Martin wrote on September 11, "I could scarsely realize it when first told to me and have not yet fairly gotten over it. I did not have the remotest idea that [she] would come on or I would have telegraphed on Saturday that we had received marching orders. . . .I am really too sorry but I do not want to discourage you from making another attempt." Sadly, Mrs. Martin would never have an opportunity to make "another attempt." This was Martin's last letter home. Three days later, he was killed while leading a charge against the Confederate defenses of Crampton's Gap during the battle of South Mountain.<br />
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<em>How shall I fulfill the harrowing duty that is mine? At the 'storming of Blue Ridge,' seven miles from Harper's Ferry, I lost my brother, friend, constant companion--the bravest and most gallant soldier of the regiment--<strong>my Major</strong>. The country has lost <strong>a soldier</strong>, I a friend, but oh, who can describe <strong>your </strong>loss? He spoke of his mother continually--and of his little son, who must now be your consolation and your care. His disappointment at not meeting you was extreme.</em><br />
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<em>It was just at the moment of the most complete victory. The 96th had again covered itself with what to me is horrid glory when we felt the extreme danger past that he received his death wound. Adjt. Geo. G. Boyer was near him, and reports him hit five minutes before six, and that he ceased to breathe at ten minutes past six. He never spoke, was unconscious, and did not suffer. Mr. Boyer removed him from the field with his own hands. I have had a coffin made, will send him to Washington to be embalmed, and thence to Pottsville, consigned to R.J. Weaver. Break the news to his poor wife. It breaks my heart to be compelled to communicate it to you.</em><br />
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The remains of Lewis Martin arrived home on Wednesday, September 17, 1862. At the same time, one hundred and fifty miles away, Americans were once again killing each other by the thousands along the banks of the Antietam Creek. Thousands of mourners lined the streets of Pottsville, flags flew at half-staff, and business was suspended throughout the city, as Martin's body was carried to its final resting place in the Presbyterian Cemetery.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">James Nagle, born on this date in 1822, was the quintessential citizen-turned-soldier of America's past who responded repeatedly to his country’s call. By profession, a house and sign painter and a wallpaper hanger, Nagle was also a family man very involved in his community. He served on both the borough council and on the local school board in his hometown of Pottsville, Pennsylvania. In times of war, though, James Nagle demonstrated fine leadership and total fidelity to his country. He never received a formal military education but, from a young age demonstrated interest in the military. Perhaps it was hearing stories of his grandfather, Philip Nagle, who served in the 1st Pennsylvania Continental Line under Washington in America's Revolutionary War that inspired him. But, whatever the cause, in 1840, at just eighteen years of age, he raised and organized a militia company dubbed the Pottsville Blues, which in 1842 became the Washington Artillery, and which, in 1846, marched off to war in Mexico, with a young twenty-four-year-old Captain James Nagle at its helm. During the four years of America’s Civil War, Nagle performed a singular feat. From 1861 to 1864, helped to raise, organize, and recruit no fewer than four regiments of Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, including the famed 48<sup>th</sup> Pennsylvania which he led from the summer of 1861 until his promotion to brigade command in the spring of 1862. Promoted in rank to Brigadier General, Nagle seemed destined for higher command but worsening health and particularly heart disease necessitated his resignation from the service in May 1863. Nevertheless, upon his return to home and family in Pottsville, Nagle raised and led a regiment of Emergency Militia during Lee’s invasion of Pennsylvania, and the following summer recruited yet another unit—the 100-Days’ 194<sup>th</sup> Pennsylvania Volunteers. Mustered out of service for the final time in November 1864, Nagle looked forward to happy, quiet, and peaceful days with his family, which included his wife, Elizabeth, and their six children. Another child, a daughter named Kate, would arrive in September 1865. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sadly, however, he did not have much time remaining. His health continued to deteriorate with heart disease--specifically angina pectoris--becoming increasingly worse as the months passed by. When he at last succumbed to this disease on August 22, 1866, this man—this loving and devoted father, leading and estimable member of the community, wartime hero and dedicated soldier—was just forty-four years of age.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "goudy old style" , "serif";">Word of his death spread quickly through Pottsville and a palpable sadness—a pall—fell upon the town. Flags were lowered, businesses closed. Soon official news of the General’s death was reported in the <i>Miners’ Journal</i>: “</span><span style="background: white;">Sincere sorrow pervaded this community. . .when the fact of Gen. Nagle’s death became known,” recorded the <i>Journal</i>, “The sad event was not unexpected, for he had suffered for years from disease of the heart and liver, and during the past few weeks it was evident to his friends that he was succumbing to the attacks of adversaries too powerful for medicine to combat successfully. He died on Wednesday morning at 4 o’clock at his residence in this Borough. A brave soldier of two wars; a good citizen; an estimable man, has passed away. While the memory of his worth will remain green in the memories of this community in which so many years of his useful life were spent, his name will be inscribed with honor on the pages of his country’s history.”<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Inscribed with honor, perhaps, but with the passage time the story of James Nagle and his service has certainly faded. And though he remains immortalized in bronze atop a monument at Antietam National Battlefield, James Nagle ranks today among the relatively unknown generals of the Civil War.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Although he would make his home and find his final resting place in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, James Nagle was actually born in Reading, PA, on April 5, 1822, the first of eventually eight children born to and raised by Daniel and Mary (Rorig) Nagle. His ancestry in the United States can be traced back to the 1730s when his forebears arrived in Pennsylvania from Germany. James’s grandfather, Philip Nagle, had served in the Revolutionary War as a drummer with the 1<sup>st</sup> Pennsylvania Continental Line. The Nagle family moved around from point to point early in James’s life—to Wommelsdorf and thence to Pine Grove and finally by 1835 to Pottsville, the seat of government for Schuylkill County. As a young man, James learned the trade of his father, a cabinet maker, and also learned the trades of wallpaper hanger and house painter. Young James Nagle also attended some years in public schools, though as an early biographical portrait described, much of his education was through the “school of experience and through continued self-effort,” going to school at night and working during the day. From an early age, James showed a strong interest in the military and, in 1840 and at just eighteen years of age, he organized a company of young Pottsville boys into a militia unit initially known as the Pottsville Blues, but which, two years later became the Washington Artillery. With the outbreak of war with Mexico, Nagle, now twenty-four, tendered the services of his company and on December 5, 1846, marched off to war. The Washington Artillery became Company B, 1<sup>st</sup> Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry and Nagle mustered into service as its captain. Nagle and his company, forming part of General Winfield Scott’s force, took part in the siege of Vera Cruz, and at the battles of Cerro Gordo, Lahoya, Huamantla, Puebla, and Atlixco. Upon the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Nagle returned with his company to a hero’s ovation to Pottsville in the summer of 1848. In recognition of his service, the people of Pottsville presented Nagle with a beautiful sword, which was one of his most treasured possessions. He carried it even during the Civil War and, today, a bronze copy of that Mexican War presentation sword can be seen attached to the Nagle statue at Antietam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 1852, James Nagle was elected Sheriff of Schuylkill County. He continued to remain active in the state militia system and soon was appointed Brigade Inspector of Pennsylvania, with the rank of Colonel. By his early thirties, James Nagle had become a leading and respected member of his community. He was also a devoted husband and loving father. On December 15, 1842, James married Elizabeth Kaercher and to their union nine children would be born, seven of whom lived to maturity. While in Mexico, James had also adopted an orphaned eight-year-old boy named Emerguildo Marquis, with whom he returned and raised in his household as one of his own. During his younger days, Nagle voted Whig but then became a Republican. He supported Lincoln and was opposed to slavery and its expansion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With his experience in the state militia and his experience leading soldiers in combat, it was only natural that Governor Andrew Curtin would call upon Nagle soon after the commencement of the Civil War. Nagle traveled to Harrisburg and helped to organize and train the many companies of volunteer soldiers pouring daily into the capital city. Curtin then commissioned Nagle colonel of the 6<sup>th</sup> Pennsylvania Infantry, a three-month unit that was raised primarily from Schuylkill and Carbon Counties. The 6<sup>th</sup> formed part of General George Thomas’s Brigade in General Robert Patterson’s Army of the Shenandoah. The regiment saw only limited action and by late July, their three-month term of service having expired, its soldiers were on their way back home. Nagle made a very favorable impression upon this command and particularly its officers. Indeed, in October 1861, the members of the 6<sup>th</sup> presented their former commander with a specially inscribed field glass, which, when delivered to Nagle was accompanied by a letter that spoke volumes to Nagle’s leadership and character:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><i><span style="background: white;"><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Dear Sir:- A number of your friends, officers, and privates of the late Sixth Regiment, P.V., commanded by you during the time it was in service, desire to present the accompanying field-glass, for your acceptance, in token of our high personal esteem, and the exalted opinion we entertain of your military knowledge and capacity.</span></em></span></i></i></div>
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<i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For many years past the military spirit and organization of Schuylkill County have been chiefly sustained by your exertions. When the Nation’s honor was to be maintained on the plains of Mexico, you with a well disciplined corps under your command, sprang to arms and hastened to the field of conflict; in Cerro Gordo’s terrific fight you stood calm and unmoved amid the leaden storm of death which fell on every side, and by your presence of mind and courage saved many gallant men from the fearful carnage.</span></em></span></i></div>
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<i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">During the long season of peace which followed the closing of that war, in your own quiet and happy home, you faithfully discharged the duties of a husband, father, and citizen, endearing yourself both to your family and the community in which you dwelt.</span></em></span></i></div>
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<i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">But now the tocsin of war sounds through the land, and her valiant sons are called to defend her against foul rebellion’s deadly blows. Speedily a regiment of your fellow citizens take the field, and confer upon you the command. During the three months we served together, though inflexibly firm and persistently industrious in the performance and requirement of every camp and field duty, yet such was the kindness of your demeanor, and your tender regard for the health, safety, and comfort of your men, that we regarded you rather as a friend and father, than a mere military commander.</span></em></span></i></div>
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<i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">And now, that you have, at the head of a Schuylkill County Regiment—Pennsylvania’s 48th—again taken the field at your country’s call and may soon be in the thickest of the most eventful battle the world has ever witnessed, on the issue of which the destiny of human freedom and progress is suspended, we present you with the accompanying glass, as well in token of our esteem and admiration, as that your eye which never dimmed with fear as it gazed upon a foe, may more readily perceive his approach and prepare for victory.</span></em></span></i></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nagle was no doubt touched by this kind and generous tribute and gift, but by the time he received it, he was once more in the field and in command of a new regiment, one he had raised almost entirely from Schuylkill County: the 48<sup>th</sup> Pennsylvania Volunteers. After being discharged as commander of the 6<sup>th</sup> Pennsylvania, Nagle was immediately commissioned by Governor Curtin to raise another regiment of volunteers, this one to serve for three years or the course of the war, whichever would come first. The regiment was raised during the months of August and September 1861 and after being formally mustered into service departed for the seat of war, being assigned first to Fortress Monroe and then to Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina. While in North Carolina in the spring of 1862, the 48<sup>th</sup> Pennsylvania was attached to Ambrose Burnside’s Coastal Expedition, which, in time, became the 9<sup>th</sup> Army Corps. When Burnside organized his forces, he made Major General Jesse Reno a divisional commander and Nagle a brigade commander in Reno’s division. Nagle would subsequently lead this brigade with great bravery and distinction at 2<sup>nd</sup> Manassas, South Mountain, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, taking a prominent part in each of these engagements. At 2<sup>nd</sup> Manassas, Nagle’s Brigade pierced Stonewall Jackson’s Confederate line along an unfinished railroad cut; at South Mountain his men helped to secure Fox’s Gap; three days later his brigade took a leading part in the attacks upon the Burnside Bridge at Antietam; while at Fredericksburg, Nagle led his brigade in an oftentimes forgotten assault upon Marye’s Heights. All the while Nagle continually showed himself a gifted, capable leader and brave soldier. He had been promoted to the rank of brigadier general in September 1862 upon the recommendation of Reno who, on September 7 and just one week before his death at South Mountain, wrote to Lincoln:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><i><span style="background: white;"><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Sir:-I have the honor to recommend Col. James Nagle, 48th Regt. Pa. Vols., for promotion as Brigadier General. Col. Nagle has served with me with fidelity and ability as commander of a Brigade, since the Battle of Newbern, and in recent battles conducted himself with gallantry, and led his command with judgment and discretion.</span></em></span></i></i></div>
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<em><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-style: normal;">Throughout the fall of 1862 and during the early winter of 1863, Nagle several times assumed the temporary command of the division and it seemed as though advancement in rank and in command would have been his had it not been for his poor and failing health. During the winter of 1863, Nagle began to suffer from chest pains. He sought out doctors who informed him he was afflicted with angina pectoris and who urged him to resign and return home for better chances of recovery. Nagle remained in the army for several more months before the pain became too great and he, at last, took the doctors’ advice and reluctantly and tearfully bid farewell to his command and to the army. He resigned in May 1863. Division commander Samuel Sturgis expressed his regret at accepting the resignation of one so capable and responded by penning the following note:<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-style: normal;">After what must have been seemed a long journey back home, Nagle was no doubt pleased to be back with his wife and family once more but, shortly after his return to Pottsville, General Robert E. Lee led his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania. In response to Curtin’s plea for action, Nagle once more answered the call. For the third time he would take command of a regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry, this time the 39<sup>th</sup> Pennsylvania Emergency Militia, being mustered into service once more as a colonel. Arriving in Harrisburg, Major General Darius Couch placed Nagle in brigade command but by then Lee had been turned back at Gettysburg and the 39<sup>th</sup> P.V.M. was mustered out and disbanded. Again, Nagle returned home and was encouraged by his doctors’ assessments that his health was improving. He felt well enough that in the summer of 1864 when the call went out seeking soldiers to serve a 100-Day term of service, he once more answered and took command of the 194<sup>th</sup> Pennsylvania Infantry. For the fourth time in three years, then, Nagle was commissioned colonel by Governor Curtin. Nagle led the 194<sup>th</sup> to Baltimore where they were assigned to the 8<sup>th</sup> Army Corps. There, Nagle was given command of the forces then occupying Mankin’s Woods, and helped to guard the approaches to the city. On November 5, 1864, the 100 days having expired, James Nagle was mustered out of service, this time for the last time.<o:p></o:p></span></em><br />
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<em><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-style: normal;">Few other citizen-turned-soldiers did more for the United States than did James Nagle during the Civil War. Throughout his time in uniform, he had helped to raise and subsequently commander four regiments of infantry and several times held brigade command. In Mexico, he was a captain; during the Civil War, he was both a colonel and a brigadier general. And though he had no formal military training or education, James Nagle proved himself a capable leader and commander. He served his country well. . .and often. He also served his community well, not only as sheriff in the early 1850s but also as head of the Pottsville Borough Council and as a member of the local school board. Sadly, Nagle did not get to enjoy peace for long, once the Civil War was over. Indeed, it was not until August 20, 1866, that President Andrew Johnson declared that all hostilities had ceased and the conflict officially concluded. Two days later, on his bed in Pottsville, surrounded by his wife Elizabeth and seven children—the eldest, Emma, aged 23 years and the youngest Kate, aged 11 months—General James Nagle drew his last breath and passed away at the much-too-young age of 44.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><em><span style="background: white; font-style: normal;">In histories of Schuylkill County published during the late 19<sup>th</sup> Century, Nagle also received high praise. “</span></em><i><span style="background: white;">General Nagle was pre-eminently a military man, and a patriot,” </span></i><span style="background: white;">said one such account.<i> “His life was permeated with a military spirit, and in this respect broadened him into a loyal and devoted citizen. . . .He is still remembered by a large number of his fellow-townsmen, and occupies a generous place in their hearts.”</i><em><span style="font-style: normal;"> Another history declared that </span></em><i>“General Nagle’s services in the Rebellion will ever be remembered with gratitude by not only the people of Schuylkill County, but by the nation at large, who owe the preservation of their liberties to the self-sacrificing devotion of men like him.’</i><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Certainly those who served in the 48<sup>th</sup> never forgot the “father” of their regiment. Indeed, forty years later the regimental veteran’s association met to decide upon what kind of monument they would have placed at Antietam National Battlefield. It was decided that a slightly-larger-than-life figure of General James Nagle would stand atop its base. On September 17, 1904, thirty-six surviving veterans of the 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry gathered at the Antietam Battlefield to attend the dedication and witness the unveiling of this monument. In addition to commemorating their wartime service and cherishing the memory of their fallen comrades, the aged veterans who traveled to Antietam that day were there also to honor the memory of the man who organized and first led the 48th Pennsylvania, Brigadier General James Nagle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Oliver Bosbyshell, a veteran of the 48th, commenced the dedication ceremony at Antietam by delivering a few opening remarks. After expressing his gratitude to the state of Pennsylvania for procuring the funds necessary for the construction of the monument, Bosbyshell spoke of the late General Nagle: “The man the Forty-Eighth honors by placing his statue to mark the spot it maintained in the fight, honors the Forty-Eighth in turn. The organizer and disciplinarian who brought his command to the highest point of efficiency amongst the Ninth Corps organizations, the foremost soldier of old Schuylkill County, Brigadier General James Nagle, well deserves this meed of praise bestowed upon him.” Following Bosbyshell’s brief opening remarks, the regiment’s former surgeon, Dr. William R.D. Blackwood, delivered the dedication address. He spoke of the role the 48th played in the battle of Antietam and the appropriateness of the regimental monument on the battlefield before turning his attention to General Nagle:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At this time the merited and (for ourselves) the coveted promotion of Colonel Nagle eventuated—he won his star as a Brigadier General. Never did a soldier win the distinction through a harder road—for his whole time of service this more than brave gentleman and splendid soldier devoted his every energy to the cause for which he left his home and family, and supported by his gallant men, he won imperishable fame. . . .Today we celebrate the attainment of his glory—a glory to him and to us who can never forget his leadership—may the bronze and granite which we now dedicate to his memory remain till time shall be no more on this historical field where so many of our Pennsylvania heroes gave their all to the defenses of the land they loved, and the Flag they adored.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "goudy old style" , "serif";">-Gould, Joseph. <i>The Story of the Forty-Eighth</i>. Philadelphia: Alfred M. Slocum Printer, 1908.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "goudy old style" , serif;">-Wallace, Francis. </span><i style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style", serif;">Memorial to the Patriotism of Schuylkill County</i><span style="font-family: "goudy old style" , serif;">. Pottsville, Pennsylvania: Benjamin Bannan Publisher, 1865.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "goudy old style" , "serif";">-Wiley, Samuel T. <i>Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania</i>. Philadelphia: Rush, West, and Company, 1893.</span></div>
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Having studied the 48th Pennsylvania for well more than two decades, just yesterday I stumbled upon an interesting account about some of the youngest soldiers in the regiment, one that I had never before seen. It's an article that appeared in the <i>Mount Carmel Item</i> on May 21, 1918, entitled "Youths In Our Great Civil War," and written by Joseph Gould, designated historian of the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry.</div>
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Gould was born in April 1840 and served in the 48th Pennsylvania throughout the duration of the war--from 1861-1865--first as a sergeant in Company F, and later as the regiment's Quartermaster Sergeant. Active in Veterans' affairs, Gould was tasked with compiling the regimental history of the 48th, which he published in 1908. Ten years later, with the world in the throes of the Great War, Gould, now age 78, was still active in preserving the memory of the 48th. He was one of only 65 veterans of the regiment to attend the annual reunion held in September that year; sadly, just one month later, on October 8, 1918, he died at his home in Mount Carmel. </div>
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In May 1918 Gould authored the following account, written, it would appear, in response to the backlash he saw printed in newspapers regarding Germany's recent decision to call upon young men to fill its depleted ranks during that final year of the Great War. Gould cautioned readers not to underestimate the fighting grit of young men and used the occasion to remember, fondly, some of the youngest soldiers who had served alongside him in the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry in this heartfelt and touching piece written some 57 years after the start of America's Civil War. </div>
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<i>Mount Carmel Item</i>, May 21, 1918, page 4. </div>
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"I notice in the dispatches said to originate in Germany that the Kaiser has called to the colors the Hun boys from 16 to 18 years of age, to proceed to the front, at once, to reinforce the shattered ranks of their army.</div>
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The American newspapers, many of them, speak very sneeringly of this addition to the reserve of the German Army, and say that the extreme youthfulness and stature of these children will be of very little actual help in opposition to the Allied armies.</div>
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Well, perhaps this will prove to be the case, and I am sure, I give a hearty amen to the prophesy, but if these Hun children make as good all around soldiers in their cause, as the American children, of the same age and stature did in the Civil War, you may depend on it, that there will be trouble for the Allies.</div>
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My observation and experience during four years of hard campaigning in a fighting regiment whose record is unsurpassed, from Bull Run to Appomattox, leads me to say that the boys from 16 to 18, short of stature and light weight, from '61 to '65 carried the heaviest knapsacks, endured the greatest hardships, marched the most miles, did less straggling, had less attention from the surgeons, did less grumbling, and fault-finding than their older and bigger comrades. It was a rare occurrence to see one of these little fellows, classed amongst the 'coffee coolers' along the road side on a long march. They were in the ranks, and perhaps carrying their own gun and the gun of some footsore, overgrown comrade. The little fellow's dog tent was always the first in place, and he would be out prospecting for a top rail, a handy spring, hen coop, smoke house or tobacco barn.</div>
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On the march from Falmouth to Washington, D.C., a distance of 200 miles via Culpepper, in 1862, fighting at Whitteyville, Kelly's Ford, Sulphur Springs, Warrenton, Manassas Junction, Bull Run and Chantilly, a period of 25 days through broiling sun, frequent rain storms, accompanied with deafening thunder and vivid lightning, these kids plodded along, in line of battle almost every day, unfaltering, unafraid, enthusiastic and determined.</div>
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To the crossing of the Rapidan river on the 5th of May, 1864, through the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, North Anna Crossing, Armstrong's Farm, Shady Grove, Cold Harbor to Petersburg on the 16th of June, fighting every foot of the way, under General Grant, whose strategy deceived and defeated the Confederate General Lee, who for 3 days had lost Grant's army and when informed by the Confederate Generals Longstreet and Alexander, that Grant's army had crossed the James River on a pontoon bridge composed of 104 boats at a point where the river was 90 feet in depth and where the rise and fall of the tide was 4 feet with swift currents, he would not believe it. These boys I speak of, were in it all, and gloried in it, and looked for more, cheerful and obedient, brave and unflinching.</div>
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I recall many of the dear little fellows, and it makes me happy to recall and record their names and brave deeds.</div>
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Cyrus Haines, of Co. F, 17 years, was wounded severely at Shady Grove and if there ever was a better soldier, "Si" Haines, in the language of Mike Kehoe, "he was a tundering good one." At this writing he is alive, and working every day in the Coal and Iron Shops in Pottsville.</div>
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Horace Straub also of F Co., not more than 16, a beautiful girlfaced chap, killed at Petersburg, Va. He had a presentiment he would not survive the coming engagement, and Captain Hoskings offered him a special detail in order to keep him out of the thick of the fight, but he declined and gave up his young life.</div>
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Sammy and John Harrison of Co. C, brothers, not much bigger than peanuts. Sammy wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., both splendid soldiers.</div>
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Anthony Wade of E Co., 16 years very slight of build, killed at Cold Harbor. Davy Thiel, of F Co., 17 years, killed at the Wilderness. John Morrison, 16 years, killed at Spotsylvania, C.H. Davy Fulton, 15 years, died at Shamokin after the war. His father was taken prisoner at Pegram Farm, and died in Salisbury Prison, North Carolina.</div>
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Bill Glen--Dad--very small, 16 years, a grand old soldier and a very interesting chap. Danny Barnett, of E., the littlest fellow of his Co., 16 years, killed at Petersburg.</div>
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Mick Wilson, of F. Co., 16 years, died at Annapolis, Md., of nostalgia (home sicknesses), a very sad case.</div>
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Harry McCann, 16 years, F. Co., killed at Pamunkey River and Andy Wessner, 16 years, of F Co., killed at Spottsylvania C.H. These little fellows and many more, showed the grit and red blood of the American boy, and don't make a mistake by underestimating the valor and stamina of other boys."</div>
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<br />John David Hoptakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521690201528852944noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-62539187327130925492020-02-17T06:56:00.000-05:002020-02-17T06:56:02.228-05:00Are These Photographs Of The Same 48th Pennsylvania Soldier? Help Me Identify An "Unidentified" CDV ImageRegular readers of my blog know that I often ask for your help in identifying "unidentified" images of 48th Pennsylvania soldiers. Soon, I will be posting an update about one such quest launched nearly two years ago but, today, I am hoping for your thoughts and feedback on the following.<br />
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One of the first 48th Pennsylvania images I collected was this one:<br />
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This is an image of an "unidentified" officer--a First Lieutenant, as indicated by the shoulder bars. Within the infantry bugle on his hat are the numbers '48,' and the image was taken by photographer A.M. Allen of Pottsville, PA. So, thus, while "unidentified," it is fairly certain this man was a 1st Lt. in the 48th Pennsylvania. However, I did not know who, exactly, this 1st Lt. was. . .</div>
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Fast forward several years, and I happened upon this image--a tintype photograph, which <i>was </i>identified as <b>Sgt. Henry E. Stichter</b>, Company D, 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry:</div>
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It is a clear and striking image of a young man, wearing the stripes of a corporal. And here is what the records state about the man depicted on the image: </div>
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Henry E. Stichter was mustered into service as a Corporal, Company D, 48th Pennsylvania, on September 23, 1861, at age 23. He stood 5'8 1/2" in height, had a "Dark" Complexion, "Dark" Eyes, and "Dark" Hair. He was a painter, originally from Hamburg, Pennsylvania. On September 1, 1863, he was promoted from corporal to 2nd Lieutenant, and to <i><b>First Lieutenant</b> </i>on September 22, 1864. He was discharged from the service following the expiration of his three-year term of service on October 6, 1864. </div>
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Sadly, Stichter did not have long to live. He died on November 13, 1868, at the very young age of 31 in his Pottsville home of consumption. His remains were laid to rest in the Odd Fellows' Cemetery in Pottsville. </div>
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So, what do you think? Are the men in these two images one-and-the-same? </div>
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If so, then the tintype image of Stichter as a corporal must have been taken between September 21, 1861, and September 1, 1863. If that is him in the unidentified CDV on the right, then it must have been taken after September 22, 1864, following his promotion to 1st Lieutenant. Perhaps he sat for this image in A.M. Allen's studio upon his return home following his discharge from the army. The man in the CDV looks a bit more gaunt, but that could be the effects of three years in the service. </div>
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My thoughts are that these two images are of the same man: first Corporal, then Lieutenant Henry E. Stichter. </div>
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<b>Orlando Baum's Cabinet Card</b></div>
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Sometime in the late 1880s, Civil War veteran H. Orlando Baum, still a young man now in his early forties, purchased a large-sized cabinet card featuring a photograph of crossed American flags, torn and tattered. These were the flags that Baum's regiment--the 48th Pennsylvania--had once carried into battle; the flags under which he and his two older brothers served. And of these flags and of his service, Baum was justly proud. </div>
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Some two-and-a-half decades or so earlier--on February 26, 1864--Orlando Baum had lied about his age. He told an army recruiter that he was eighteen years old when, in fact, he was still five months shy of his <i>seventeenth </i>birthday. His older brother Charles was there with him that day and had signed up, too. The two Baums had become soldiers; having taken the Oath they were mustered into service as privates in Company D of the hard-fighting, seasoned 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. They were not the only Baums in the company; a third brother--twenty-one-year-old James Baum had enlisted two days prior to Charles and Orlando. The Baums were native of Berks County, likely growing up and residing near Hamburg, a small town that sits right on the edge of neighboring Schuylkill County, from where most of the soldiers of the 48th hailed. There were several men from Hamburg within the ranks of Company D. </div>
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H. Orlando Baum (the "H" standing for Horatio) was described as having a Light Complexion, Blue Eyes, and Brown Hair. He stood just 5'3" in height. He told the mustering officer that he was a Confectioner by occupation, while brothers Charles and James were both listed as Moulders. Having signed on, the Brothers Baum would have made their way to Pottsville, where they were likely uniformed and equipped. From there, in mid-March 1864, the three Baums set off for war. </div>
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The 48th Pennsylvania was by then a veteran unit, having been originally organized in 1861 and having campaigned throughout the South--from North Carolina to Virginia, into Maryland, back to Virginia, then out West to Kentucky and Tennessee. It experienced combat at 2nd Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and at Knoxville. When it was first formed during those heady summer days of 1861, it totaled more than 1,000 men. Now only about 350 remained. In late January 1864, those members of the regiment who decided to re-enlist for another "three-year or the war" term were granted a thirty-day furlough. They returned to their homes in Schuylkill County while the regiment's officers worked hard to gather new recruits. Appeals were printed in newspapers; recruiting offices once again opened. Despite the hell the war had become, there were still many young men eager to serve. Hundreds signed on, many who were much too young to enlist back in '61 but who now were of age--or nearly of age--like Orlando Baum. When the regiment returned once more to the seat of war--rendezvousing with the rest of the Ninth Army Corps in Annapolis, Maryland, it numbered more than 800 men strong, with more recruits arriving daily. </div>
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If the Baum Brothers had set off hoping to see combat, they did not have long to wait. With the onset of Spring and with the arrival of Ulysses Grant as general-in-chief of all Union armies--and with the presidential election just six months away--the Army of the Potomac set off to crush Robert E. Lee and his vaunted Army of Northern Virginia. The blue-clad soldiers crossed the Rapidan in northern Virginia in early May--and what ensued was two months of the most hellish combat. Even the veteran soldiers of the 48th Pennsylvania--those who had fought at and survived 2nd Bull Run and Antietam and Fredericksburg--had never experienced anything like it. In the Wilderness, at Spotsylvania, at the North Anna, at Cold Harbor, and at Petersburg, the fighting was seemingly endless--day-after-day, week-after-week, every day, it seemed, there was a battle. The 48th suffered heavily. From early May until the end of June--from when the regiment first crossed the Rapidan to when they started mining under the Confederate lines outside of Petersburg--the regiment lost more than 300 men, just to battle alone. Somehow, though, the Baum Boys emerged safely from these brutal and bloody campaigns. </div>
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When the 48th Pennsylvania disbanded, their flags were turned over to state authorities in Harrisburg, including the tatters that once were the regiment's first flags, presented to the regiment when it first marched to war in '61. There was little left of them. And so, when the regiment once again departed, this time with the Baum Brothers in its ranks, it was presented with new flags to be carried wherever the fates of war may find them. Now, with the war concluded, those flags, too, were turned over to the State. In 1887, they were photographed. Cabinet Cards were produced and many of the regiment's veterans purchased them, as a keepsake of their time in the service. </div>
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Sadly, none of the three Baum Brothers lived long lives. The oldest brother, James, was the first to answer that final reveille, passing away on May 12, 1901, at age 58. Charles passed next. He was at work in a paint shop in Reading, late in March 1905. He seemed to have been in perfect health until, at 3:00 p.m., he collapsed. Efforts were made to resuscitate but nothing could be done. He died from "paralysis of the heart;" he was fifty-six years old. Horatio Orlando Baum outlived his brothers by more than a decade. His life ended on September 3, 1916, at age 68. </div>
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At some point--whether it was right after he purchased it, or perhaps some time down the road, after the deaths of his brothers, perhaps--Orlando Baum wrote some thoughts down onto that Cabinet Card of the 48th Pennsylvania's flags. He wrote them not for himself, it would appear, but for posterity; for his family. . .and for us. </div>
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They were words he wanted us to know; and to remember. Thoughts on his wartime service, and the service of all the men in blue. What was gained; what was lost. He asked us also to never forget the sacrifices made in the effort to secure for us the hope and promise of the United States of America. That he was proud of what he did, there can be no doubt. </div>
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"Under these tattered and shriv. . .<br />Battle flags I received my Baptism of first and dared death on many a hard fought field</div>
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pitted against the bravest foe mortal man ever met in Battle, "Our Erring Brothers" of the South</div>
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<u>To My Friends All--</u></div>
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May come what will remember always to our credit we done our duty, defended the Nation's integrity, kept unsullied the banner we swore to uphold, rescued a Race <u>from Bondage</u>, and have given you back the inheritage [inheritance] Our Forefathers left us as a sacret [sacred] trust and under God's will you have a reunited Country, the happiest and best under Heaven's [illegible], and we did not war in vain. Remember the old Veterans kindly for what they have done, not what they may be, if you will, and may God forbid any of you or yours should ever have to endure, or do as these, my old Comrades done, Loyally and Willingly. (Yet some are left to die in Almshouses.)----Shame, but thank God we hope there are few and Americans will not forget us after we are gone. </div>
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<i><b>Elias Britton</b> survived two battle wounds as well as a wartime illness, only to die in a work-related accident in 1892. </i></div>
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Britton served throughout all four years of the Civil War. Mustered into service as a Private in Company A, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry, on September 17, 1861, Britton served with the regiment in all its many campaigns and battles, seeing action in North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee. His age was listed as 25 years old at the time of his enlistment, however, his grave marker states that he was born in October 1832, which would have made him 29 in 1861. He stood 5'6" in height and was described as having dark eyes, dark hair, and a dark complexion. He provided his occupation as miller, and his residence as Auburn, in Schuylkill County, PA. The regimental records list Britton among the wounded at both the Battle of 2nd Bull Run (8/29/1862), and at the Battle of Petersburg (6/17/1864). Surviving these injuries, Britton was sick in the hospital when the regiment was discharged in July 1865. </div>
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Struck presumably by lead or fragments of iron on the field of battle, it was wood that ultimately killed Britton in a freak work-related accident in May 1892. Working as an engineer at the Hope Brush Factory in Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania, Britton was struck in an abdomen by a wooden plank that was launched through the air from a circular saw. Sadly, the injury was fatal. Elias Britton was not yet sixty years old. His remains were laid to rest in the Odd Fellows' Cemetery, in Tamaqua, PA. </div>
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Arriving at a stack of old cabinet cards, he examined each one, looking for any names, photographer's mark, and so on. On the back of one, he saw the name "John Dechant." On front was an inscription of where the photograph had been taken and by whom, "D.W. Boss, Mechanicsburg, Pa." And so he did an internet search for a John Dechant from Mechanicsburg and up popped a hit. . .a link to a findagrave.com listing for a John Dechant who is buried in Mechanicsburg. And inscribed upon the tombstone: <b>Co. K 48th Regt. Penna. Vol. GAR</b> </div>
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Britt had discovered a post-war image of John Dechant, the Sergeant Major of the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry. And the price for this image, well, just one dollar. You simply can't beat that. </div>
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Born on February 27, 1841, John Dechant was twenty-years of age when the Civil War broke out. A laborer from the small Schuylkill County town of Cressona, young Dechant decided to volunteer his services and on October 1, 1861, became a member of Company K, 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He stood 5'10 1/2" in height, had a dark complexion, grey eyes, and dark hair. Dechant must have certainly impressed for, as the war progressed, he advanced in rank until, on June 6, 1865, he became third and final Sergeant-Major of the regiment. He was mustered out of service when the regiment disbanded the following month. </div>
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He moved to Mechanicsburg, PA, at some point during the post-war years, though little is known of him from there. In May 1875 his name appears--alongside a John Sponslor, who also served in the 48th--in the Carlisle <i>Weekly Herald</i> as having attained a licensed to keep and operated a hotel, restaurant, and serve liquor in Mechanicsburg. He lived on Market Street in Mechanicsburg and one day--it appears as though to be in the 1880s-1890s--donned what appears to be his best grey suit and made his way to the photography studio of D.W. Boss to have his picture taken. </div>
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Fast-forward some 118 years later to the year 2019, and there was Britt, in that antique store shuffling through a stack of old photographs, and discovering this image of John Dechant, Sergeant-Major of the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If not one of the most tragic, then at least it was one of the saddest stories in the history of the 48<sup style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">th</sup> Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And it all began, apparently, with an argument over who was a better general: George McClellan, or Ambrose Burnside. . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It happened late on a Friday night--February 26, 1864. The war-weary, veteran soldiers of the 48<sup style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">th</sup> Pennsylvania Infantry were at home in Schuylkill County, on their month-long regimental furlough. Over the past two-and-a-half years, these tough, seasoned soldiers had campaigned in North Carolina, slugged it out at 2<sup style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">nd</sup> Bull Run, Antietam, and at Fredericksburg—the regiment having suffered heavily during each of these sanguinary engagements—and had just recently endured what may have been their toughest trial yet, shivering in the cold, snowy mountains of East Tennessee.<span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>It was there, one month earlier and while the regiment was encamped in those cold, snowy mountains, when the question was asked of the men: would you enlist, again, for another three-year term of service?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With the war still raging and its end still nowhere in sight, the government desperately needed veteran soldiers like those of the 48<sup style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">th </sup>whose original enlistments were due to expire in the late summer of 1864. And so the government offered various incentives if these tried and true soldiers agreed to reenlist for a second term of service: a $300 bounty, the designation of ‘Veteran Volunteer,’ and, if at least three-quarters of the regiment decided to re-enlist, the ability for the regiment to retain its numeric designation, meaning the 48th Pennsylvania would continue to exist as the 48th Pennsylvania. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For many, it was an easy decision. Having already seen the horrors of war, still, they were committed to the cause, and devoted to one another. For others, their decision was to fulfill their original enlistment and then, hopefully, return home after an honorable discharge. The regiment at this point numbered around 400 men. 316 decided to reenlist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A heroes’ welcome greeted these weary 316 upon their arrival in Pottsville on February 3, 1864. Patriotic music was played, flags were waved, speeches given, and toasts made, as hundreds turned out to welcome back their sons, their husbands, their brothers, and their fathers from the front. A beautiful new stand of colors was presented to the regiment, to replace their torn and tattered flags of '61. After all the fanfare and celebration, the soldiers made their way to their homes. . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Three-and-a-half-weeks later—and just one week <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">before</i> the regiment was scheduled to depart, once more, for the seat of war—one of these veteran volunteers would be dead; murdered at the home of his sister-in-law in Silver Creek, Pennsylvania.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">His named was James Shields and he was about twenty-one, maybe twenty-two-years old. He had enlisted in December 1861 at age nineteen. He was a laborer with blue eyes, auburn-colored hair, and a light complexion. He had survived the worst of the war up to this part, walking away unscathed from the hell of 2<sup style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">nd</sup> Bull Run and Antietam, Fredericksburg, and East Tennessee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But late on that fateful Friday evening, at his sister-in-law's home in Silver Creek, he and a friend—another hard-fighting soldier of Captain William Winlack’s Company E, named David McAllister—found trouble in the form of two men: Patrick Goldey and Peter Curren.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was about 9:00 p.m. when James Shields and his comrade-in-arms McAllister arrived at Hannah Shields’s home. Once inside, James went into the kitchen while McAllister made his way into the living room. It was there, in the living room, where McAllister “got to arguing politics” with Patrick Goldey. It appears their conversation boiled down to an argument over who was the better general: George B. McClellan or Ambrose Burnside. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">McAllister, Shields, and the rest of the soldiers of the 48<sup style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">th</sup> were very much devoted to Burnside, the heavily whiskered, hard luck commander, under whom they had served since their days in North Carolina. It is not known whether Goldey, or Curren had been in the service—though a quick glance through Pennsylvania’s service records does not reveal that they had—but, apparently, Goldey was speaking poorly of Burnside, calling him a “mean man,” and probably some other, worse, things. McAllister would not let the attacks on his corps commander go unanswered. He responded that at least Burnside “did not get on a gunboat like McClellan when fighting was going on,” a reference to the July 1, 1862, Battle of Malvern Hill during which McClellan watched the battle unfold from the decks of a boat in the James River.<span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> 1864 was also an election year and McClellan was seen as the likely Democratic Party candidate who would take on Lincoln at the ballot box. </span>Not wanting to argue further with Goldey, McAllister left the living room and went into the kitchen where his comrade James Shields had been. Peter Curren, sometimes known as Hugh Curran, was also there. It is not known what, if anything, was said by or to McAllister when he arrived in the kitchen but, soon after, Patrick Goldey was there, too, in the now cramped kitchen of Hannah Shields's home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Seeing Goldey, Curren said, “Paddy, he’s the man that said he’d shoot you,” apparently pointing to, or gesturing at McAllister. McAllister denied the allegation, to which Curren called him a liar. According to McAllister, Curren then reached into the inside pocket of his coat. McAllister put his hand onto the handle of his pistol but decided instead to escape the escalating situation and seek help. He quickly hunched down and made his escape through a window in the kitchen.<span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Arriving back at the house, McAllister“found Shields dead in the back kitchen.” He had been stabbed in the heart, repeatedly in the chest, and several times in the abdomen. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the back door of the house lay another man--John Stinson--dead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hannah Shields later testified that Curren—probably soon after McAllister had escaped through the window and seemingly looking for trouble—told Patrick Goldey that it was instead Shields, and not McAllister, who had said he was going to shoot him. Hannah Shields protested, saying that Curren was lying—that James had said no such thing. Curren and Goldey grabbed a hold of James, holding him down in a stooping position, one of them reaching for Shields’s pistol.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Attempting to defuse the situation, Hannah told James to give her his pistol; he said he would. She reached for it just as Patrick Goldey grabbed it from Shields’s pocket.</span><span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hannah then grabbed Curren, begging the two men--</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"for God's sake"--not to kill her brother-in-law. But sadly--tragically--her pleas went unanswered. Curren told her to back off or he would take care of her next. He gave her a shove and, while doing so, hit her on the lip. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Goldey ran off first, said Hannah, followed closely by Curren.</span><span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> At this point, a</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">nother man, John Stinson—an innocent bystander, perhaps, who had heard the commotion in the kitchen and who was on his way to help—was near the back entrance of the house when Goldey and Curren ran off. Hannah Shields saw Curren grab hold of Stinson. He gave him a shove, she said, and told him to get inside. “When I saw him next,” Hannah testified, “Stinson was dead.” He had received a gash to his thigh which severed an artery and the poor man bled to death. The knife used to kill Shields and Stinson was later found; it was “a shoemaker’s knife sharpened down to a keen edge and narrow point.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Word of the murders spread quickly. Shields was killed at about 10:00 p.m. Within an hour, word of it arrived in Pottsville and Constable Christman immediately obtained a warrant to arrest the men involved.<span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>Christman, with a squad of soldiers belonging to the 1<sup style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">st</sup> New York Artillery—who were in Schuylkill County, in part, to suppress striking miners and ensure the coal mines remained in operation, as well as to put down any draft resistance—set off for Silver Creek where they arrested Curren, Goldey, and two other men who were apparently involved, or at least present.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">David McAllister would see much action in the months ahead, at places like the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and at Petersburg. <span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> He survived the war and was mustered out of service as a sergeant </span>on July 17, 1865. Returning home to Schuylkill County, I could only wonder if the veteran McAllister paid a visit to the grave of his murdered friend James Shields, who had been stabbed to death in Silver Creek. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In all of my years studying the 48th Pennsylvania I have never come across a photograph of Private James Shields. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">But late last week, arriving in my inbox from out of the proverbial blue, was an image of the man who was with Shields the night he was murdered: David McAllister. </span></div>
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Christopher Jordan, a collector of Civil War images, sent me the image, which is a part of his collection. Of course, seeing a "new" face of the 48th is always a special thing for me, but I was particularly struck by this image. It is McAllister's expression that is most striking. His eyes are piercing and the look on his face is one of pride, determination, and hard work. The brass on his kepi:</div>
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David McAllister was one of those guys who was in the war from start to finish. Along with James Shields, McAllister began his Civil War service as a private in the Wynkoop Artillery, a militia company based out of Silver Creek, and one that was formed and led by Captain William Winlack. The Wynkoop Artillery marched off to war on April 22, 1861, and soon formed part of the 16th Pennsylvania Infantry--a three month regiment. Upon the expiration of this three-month term of service, most of the Wynkoop Artillery enlisted for a three-year term, and their company became Company E, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry. McAllister said he was nineteen years of age when, on August 20, 1861, he signed up to serve under Winlack in the 48th PA. But it would appear that he lied about his age in order to enlist. According to what is inscribed upon his tombstone, McAllister was born April 4, 1844, making him just seventeen years of age in the summer of 1861. He stood 5'7" in height and was described as having a Light Complexion, Sandy Hair, and Grey Eyes. Like Shields, McAllister was a laborer by profession. He entered the 48th as seventh corporal; by war's end, he was a sergeant. McAllister's name appears among the "missing" at Second Bull Run but it would seem he soon returned to the regiment following that chaotic fight. David McAllister's life was still just beginning when he was mustered out of service when the regiment was disbanded on July 17, 1865. He died in Coal Township, Northumberland County, on June 25, 1907, at the age of 63, and laid to rest there at Saint Edward's Cemetery. </div>
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It was an amazing thing to see this image of McAllister, a man I had previously 'known' only through the regimental records and as the man who was there the night Shields was killed. For me, his is a "new face" of the 48th. </div>
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<b>***Thank you to Mr. Christopher Jordan for sending along his CDV image of McAllister and for letting me use it to tell this story. The details of Shields's murder and the testimonies of David McAllister and Hannah Shields appeared in the March 5, 1864, edition of the <i>Miners' Journal.***</i> </b></div>
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<br />John David Hoptakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521690201528852944noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-22215764822855031682019-08-12T09:29:00.002-04:002019-08-12T09:29:28.545-04:00The Last of the 48th: Private Charles Washington Horn<div style="text-align: justify;">
Seventy-eight years ago this week--on August 4, 1941--Charles Washington Horn, the last surviving soldier of the 48th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry, passed away. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Charles Washington Horn</b><br />Last Surviving Veteran of the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry<br />[<i>Pottsville Republican</i>, August 5, 1941] </td></tr>
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He had been born some ninety-four years earlier, on March 15, 1847, near Brockton, a small coal town sometimes also called Patterson, midway between Middleport and Tamaqua, in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, the son of Thomas and Mary Magdalena Myer Horn. Although the regimental records indicate that Horn was 18 when he enlisted as a private on February 27, 1864, he was, in fact, still a few weeks shy of his seventeenth birthday, making him one of the youngest soldiers in the 48th. One account declares that Horn had run away from home in order to enlist. Perhaps he felt the army a more appealing alternative to his work as a slate picker at a local coal mine, where he worked ten-hour days, earning just sixteen cents a day, with half of that wage being deducted for purchases at the company store. At the time of his enlistment, he stood 5'5" and was described as having a "Light" complexion, hazel eyes, and dark hair. Young Private Horn would be thrice wounded during his time in uniform, being shot through both legs and losing a finger during the regiment's actions during the bloody Overland Campaign. Despite these injuries, Horn served for the duration of the conflict, being honorably discharged when the regiment was disbanded and mustered out of service on July 17, 1865. </div>
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Horn returned home to Schuylkill County though would remain there for just a couple more years. In 1867, the twenty-year-old, wounded veteran left the coal region behind and moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he would live for the rest of his very long life. He became a carpenter and then found employment with the Lehigh Zinc and Iron Company, working there for some forty-two years before the plant moved from Bethlehem to Patterson, New Jersey. He was then pensioned and, at last, settled down. He married Ms. Aravesta Wohlbach and together, the couple would have six children, though two died in childhood. Aravesta passed away in 1911 at age 63 and Charles Horn would remain a widower for the next thirty years. </div>
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Of course, living such a long life, Horn, known affectionately in his later years as "Uncle Charlie," was an active figure in veterans' affairs. He served for a time as commander of the J.K. Taylor Post of the Grand Army of the Republic and was a regular attendee at many of the 48th Pennsylvania's Veteran Reunions, an event held each year in early September. It would appear, though, that he was the <i>only </i>attendee of the regiment's 73rd Reunion in September 1938 and was once again the <i>only </i>attendee to the regiment's 75th (and final) Reunion held in Bethlehem at the Methodist Church in September 1940. </div>
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Charles Washington Horn died on Monday, August 4, 1941, at his daughter Mabel's home at 546 Main Street in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Three days later, on August 7, 1941--just four months before the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor--the remains of this Civil War soldier were laid to rest with full military honors at Bethlehem's Nisky Hill Cemetery. </div>
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Of the more than 1,860 men who served in the 48th Pennsylvania during the American Civil War, Charles Washington Horn had the distinction of being the regiment's longest and last surviving veteran. </div>
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<br />John David Hoptakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521690201528852944noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-72635823044165528282019-07-18T19:52:00.003-04:002023-08-05T06:35:59.797-04:00Schuylkill County's African American Civil War Soldiers: A Roster <div style="text-align: justify;">
The ranks of the 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry were composed primarily of Schuylkill County men. So, too, were the ranks of the 96th Pennsylvania, as well as several companies of the 50th Pennsylvania, 129th Pennsylvania, and 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Indeed, throughout the four years of America's Civil War, many thousands of Schuylkill County's brave sons, hailing from places like Pottsville and Tamaqua, Port Clinton, St. Clair, Middleport, Cressona, and all the many towns, townships, and coal patches in between, served in Union blue. </div>
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Included among this number were more than three dozen African American men who were prohibited from serving in the county's white volunteer regiments but who still proudly served--and bravely fought--in segregated regiments, commanded by white commissioned officers, regiments such as the hard-fighting 3rd United States Colored Infantry (USCI) and the 8th USCI. Two Black men from Schuylkill County--James Phoenix and William Haines--served within the ranks of the famed and fabled 54th Massachusetts Infantry, seeing action at James Island and during the regiment's storied assault upon Battery Wagner. Others, like those who served in the 43rd USCI, fought with a fierce determination during the attack upon the Crater. It was there were forty-three-year-old John Cole, a shoemaker from Pottsville, suffered a mortal wound, and where young Jonathan Enty, a twenty-year-old laborer from Tamaqua, went listed as Missing In Action. He would never return and was most likely killed in action. </div>
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Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, had a very small Black population on the eve of Civil War. Of the 89,510 men, women, and children counted in Schuylkill County in the Census of 1860, only 357 were identified as either Black or "mulatto." Of this number, only 92 were Black men of fighting age. Still, despite this small number, at least 37 of these men (a remarkable 40%) served in the Civil War, a few of them were drafted or served as substitutes, the majority, however, enlisted as volunteers. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Private<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Company B<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />8th USCI</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Enlisted: 3/4/1864 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Credited to: North Manheim Township, Schuylkill County<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: Berks County, PA</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Age: 19; Height: 5'4 1/2"; Complexion: Yellow; Eye Color: Grey; Hair Color: Black</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Occupation: Teamster</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Enlisted: 1/18/1865 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Credited to: Tremont, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Discharged: 10/1/1865 at Richmond, Virginia<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: Chambersburg, PA</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Age: 20; Height: 5'7"; Complexion: Brown; Eye Color: Brown; Hair Color: Black<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Occupation: Laborer</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Enlisted: 1/12/1865 in Pottsville, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Credited to: Port Carbon, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Discharged: 10/1/1865 at Richmond, VA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: Either in Frederick, MD or Winchester, VA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Notes: </span><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Appointed Sergeant: 1/23/1865; Promoted 1st Sergeant per G.O. No. 2: 6/1865</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Flag of the 24th USCT</i><br />
<i>"Let Soldiers in War Be Citizens in Peace"</i><br />
[www.loc.gov] </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><u style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">John Cole</span></u></b><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Private<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Company E<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />43rd USCI</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Age: 42; Height: 5'10"; Complexion: Yellow: Eye Color: Light Brown; Hair Color: "Curly Black"<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Occupation: Shoemaker</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Casualty Sheet for John Cole, 43rd USCT</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Obituary of John Cole</i><br />
<i>Miners' Journal, August 1864</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">More on the life and death of Private John Cole can be found <a href="https://48thpennsylvania.blogspot.com/2019/02/a-good-man-gone-story-of-private-john-c.html" target="_blank">here</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Age: 17; Height: 5'4 1/2"; Complexion: Black; Eye Color: Black; Hair Color: "Wooly"<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Occupation: Laborer</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Enlisted: 3/4/1864 in Pottsville, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Credited to: Tamaqua, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: Newbern, North Carolina</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Enlisted: 3/31/1864<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Credited to: Porter Township, Schuylkill County; Resided in: Newcastle<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: Schuylkill County, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Discharged: 6/12/1865 from L'Ouverture Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia, due to Disability</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Notes: Wounded in Action at the Crater: 7/30/1864; Sent to Hospital, sick: 9/5/1864; Promoted to 1st Sergeant: 10/1/1864; Reduced in Ranks to Private: 9/1/1865</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><u style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Gabriel Enty</span></u></b><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Corporal<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Company D<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />43rd USCI</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Age: 18; Height: 5'7 1/2"; Complexion: Dark; Eye Color: Dark; Hair Color: Dark<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Occupation: Blacksmith</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Enlisted: 3/22/1864 in Pottsville, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Credited to: Blythe Township, Schuylkill County, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: Northumberland County, PA <br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Discharged: 6/8/1864 from L'Ouverture Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia, due to Disability</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><u style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">George Enty</span></u></b><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Private<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Company H<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />43rd USCI</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Age: 33; Height: 5'5"; Complexion: Black; Eye Color: Black; Hair Color: Black<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Occupation: Miner</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Enlisted: 4/4/1864 in Brookville, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Credited to: Eldred Township, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: Schuylkill County, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Discharged: 10/20/1865 at Brownsville, Texas</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Age: 20; Height: 5'7"; Complexion: Dark; Eye Color: Dark; Hair Color: Dark<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Occupation: Laborer</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Enlisted: 3/22/1864 at Pottsville, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Credited to: Tamaqua, PA</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Notes: Appointed Corporal: 4/18/1864; Wounded and Missing In Action: 7/30/1864 Battle of the Crater</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Buried: Bethel A.M.E. Cemetery, Pottsville, PA</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Grave of Private James Fisher</i><br />
<i>3rd USCT</i><br />
Bethel A.M.E. Cemetery, Pottsville, PA </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: times, times new roman, serif;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">David Fry</u><br />Private<br />Company I<br />3rd USCI</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times, times new roman, serif;">Age: 29; Height: 5'11"; Complexion: Light; Eye Color: Dark; Hair Color: Black<br />Occupation: Farmer</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times, times new roman, serif;">Enlisted: 7/21/1863 in Philadelphia<br />Born: Lancaster County, PA<br />Resided: Port Clinton, PA<br />Died: 9/8/1897<br />Buried: St. John's Cemetery, Auburn, PA</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Grave of Private David Fry<br />3rd USCT</i><br />[findagrave.com] </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Age: 46; Height: 5'10"; Complexion: Black; Eye Color: Black; Hair Color: Black<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Occupation: Farmer</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Enlisted: 7/4/1863 in Philadelphia<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: Lehigh County, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Discharged: 10/31/1865 at Jacksonville, Florida</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Died: 9/12/1896<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Buried: Bethel A.M.E. Cemetery, Pottsville, PA</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Grave of Private Stroud Grove</i><br />
<i>3rd USCT</i><br />
Bethel A.M.E. Cemetery, Pottsville, PA </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Age: 19</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Occupation: Boatman</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Enlisted: 4/12/1863<br />Born: 1844 in Schuylkill County, PA </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Discharged: 8/20/1865</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><u style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><u style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Thornton Heath</span></u></b><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Private<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Company C<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />24th USCI</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Age: 37; Height: 5’2”; Complexion: Black; Eye Color: Black: Hair: “Wool”<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Occupation: Blacksmith</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Enlisted: 2/2/1865 in Pottsville</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: Virginia</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Notes: Substitute for Gillard Dock, Tremont, PA; Deserted from Camp William Penn: 4/11/1865</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><u style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">George Jackson</span></u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Private<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />32nd USCI</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Age: 32; Height: 5'10 1/2"; Complexion: Dark; Eye Color: Dark; Hair Color: "Wooly"<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Occupation: Laborer</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Enlisted: 6/27/1864 in Pottsville<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Credited to: Port Carbon<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: Columbia, PA</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Buried: Perhaps at Lincoln Cemetery, Mechanicsburg, PA</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Age: 24; Height: 5'4 1/2"; Complexion: Black; Eye Color: Black; Hair Color: Black<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Occupation: Laborer</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Grave of John B. Jones</i><br />
<i>Musician, 8th USCT</i><br />
Bethel A.M.E. Cemetery, Pottsville, PA </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Age: 27; Complexion: Black; Eye Color: Black; Hair Color: Black<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Occupation: Laborer</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Enlisted in 24th USCI: 1/18/1865 at Pottsville<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: Harper County, Virginia</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Notes: <span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>Deserted from 8th USCT under the name Joseph Garner; This Enlistment Void; 1/26/65: "This man is a deserter from Co. G, 8th Regt. USCT under the name Joseph Garner;" "Joseph Jones having been recognized as a Deserter from the 8th USCT is hereby dropped from the Rolls of Company "A" 24th Regt. U.S. Colored," Signed Louis Wagner, Lt. Col. 88th PA; commanding post at Camp William Penn</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Enlisted: 1/18/1865 in Pottsville<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Credited to: Cressona, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: Harrisburg, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Notes: Promoted Corporal: 6/4/1864; Sent to Field Hospital, 3/15/1865; Returned: 3/16/1865</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Enlisted: 3/3/1864 in Pottsville<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Credited to: Tamaqua, PA <br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: Charles County, Maryland<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Discharged: 8/22/1865 at Hilton Head, South Carolina<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Notes: Appointed Corporal 3/18/1865</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Died: 3/22/1913 in Schuylkill County<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Buried: Bethel A.M.E. Cemetery, Pottsville, PA</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Enlisted: 7/6/1863 in Philadelphia<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: 1827 in Lancaster County, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Notes: Sergeant from Enlistment<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Died: 10/30/1907 in North Manheim Township, Schuylkill County, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Buried: Bethel A.M.E. Cemetery, Pottsville, PA</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Grave of Sergeant John L. Martin</i><br />
<i>3rd USCT</i><br />
Bethel A.M.E. Cemetery, Pottsville, PA</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><u style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Daniel Molson</span></span></u></b><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></span></i><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Corporal<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Company B<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />24<sup style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">th</sup> USCI</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Age: 34; Height: 5’6 ¼”; Complexion: Black; Eye Color: Black; Hair Color: Black<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Occupation: Boatman</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Enlisted: 1/27/1865 in Pottsville<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Credited to: Port Clinton, PA</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Sergeant<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Company B<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />24<sup style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">th</sup> USCI</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Age: 38; Height: 5’2 ½”; Complexion: Black; Eye Color: Black; Hair Color: Black<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Occupation: Boatman</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Enlisted: 1/27/1865 in Pottsville<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Credited to: Port Clinton, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: Berks County, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Discharged: 10/1/1865 at Richmond, Virginia</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><u style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Henry Morgan</span></u></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Wagoneer<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Company H<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />6<sup style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">th</sup> USCI</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />Age: 24; Height: 5'9"; Complexion: Dark; Eye Color: Brown; Hair Color: Black<br />Occupation: Laborer</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Age: 31; Height: 5’5”; Complexion: Dark; Eye Color: Grey; Hair Color: Black<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Occupation: Laborer</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Discharged: 9/19/1865<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Notes:</span><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Identified on one Enlistment Form as Mulatto; Sent to Hospital on 4/7/1865; Dicharged per Certificate of Disability at David's Island Hospital, New York</span><span color="inherit" style="border: 1pt none; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Died: 10/8/1903<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Buried: Port Clinton Cemetery, Port Clinton, PA</span><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Obituary of Daniel Proctor<br />Harrisburg Telegraph October 10, 1903</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Grave of Daniel Proctor</i><br />
<i>25th USCT</i><br />
Port Clinton Cemetery, Port Clinton, PA </td></tr>
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<span color="inherit" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Company I</span><br />
<span color="inherit" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">6</span><sup style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: inherit; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">th</sup><span color="inherit" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><span color="inherit" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">USCI</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Age: 25; Height: 5’4”; Complexion: Black; Eye Color: Black; Hair Color: Black<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Occupation: Tailor</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Enlisted: 9/8/1863<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: Bucks County, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Discharged: 9/20/1865<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Notes: </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Substitute for Tillman Seidle, 3rd Ward, Reading, PA; Wounded while on picket duty and sent to General Hospital: 6/25/1864; Sent to D.C. General Hospital: 11/15/1864; June-August 1865: On Detached Service as Brigade Headquarters' Guard<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Buried: Bethel A.M.E. Cemetery, Pottsville, PA </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Age: 30; Height: 5'6 1/4"; Complexion: Black; Eye Color: Black; Hair Color: Black<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Occupation: Barber</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Enlisted: 8/24/1864 in Pottsville<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Credited to: Port Carbon, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: Harford County, Maryland</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Buried: Bethel A.M.E. Cemetery, Pottsville PA</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><u style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Benjamin Robinson</span></u></b><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Private<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Company C<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />127th USCI</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Age: 35; Height: 5'9 1/2"; Complexion: Black; Eye Color: Black; Hair Color: Black<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Occupation: Laborer</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Enlisted: 8/24/1864 in Pottsville<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Credited to: Port Carbon, PA <br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: Fredericksburg, Virginia<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Discharged: 9/8/1865 at Brazos Santiago, Texas<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Notes: Absent, sick in hospital at Point of Rocks, 3/26/1865</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><u style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Israel Smith</span></u></b><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><span color="inherit" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Private</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Company B<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />24th USCI</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Age: 17; Height: 5'7"; Complexion: Black; Eye Color: Black; Hair Color: Black<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Occupation: Boatman</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Enlisted: 1/27/1865 in Pottsville, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Credited to: Port Clinton, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: Schuylkill County, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Discharged: 10/1/1865 at Richmond, Virginia</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i>At age 17, Israel Smith Needed the Consent of His Grandfather in Order to Serve</i><br />nara.gov</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Died: 10/21/1889 at age 50; "Death came when he lost control of the wagon he was driving down a steep hill, and the team ran away. He was thrown to the ground and fatally injured when a wagon wheel rolled over him."<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Buried: Big Spring Presbyterian Cemetery, Newville, PA</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Enlisted: 9/24/1863 in Port Clinton, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: 1842 in Spotswood, New Jersey<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Discharged: 11/10/1865 at Brownsville, Texas<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Notes:</span><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Drafted; </span><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wounded at Olustee, FL, 2/20/1864; in Hospital at Beaufort, SC; returned from hospital by 5/1864; Engaged at Chapin's Farm, VA; Petersburg, VA; Detached as Brigade Teamster as of 10/1864;<span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>Appomattox, VA</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Enlisted: 9/24/1863 in Port Clinton, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Discharged: 11/10/1865 in Brownsville, Texas</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Enlisted: 1/27/1865 in Pottsville<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Credited to: Port Clinton, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Discharged: 10/1/1865 at Richmond, Virginia<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Notes: Promoted to Corporal: 2/8/1865; Promoted to Sergeant: 7/10/1865</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Enlisted: 9/1/1864 in Jacksonville, Florida<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Mustered into Service: 9/6/1864 at Hilton Head, South Carolina<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Credited to: Vermont<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: September 1844 in Pottsville, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Notes: Appointed Sergeant on 9/15/1864; Police Sergeant per Special Order 83 Headquarters U.S. Forces, Hilton Head, SC: 8/11/1865</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Died: 9/26/1925<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Buried: Bethel A.M.E. Cemetery, Pottsville, PA</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Grave of Sergeant William Tarr<br />21st USCT</i><br />
Bethel A.M.E. Cemetery, Pottsville, PA </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Age: 40; Height: 5'8 1/2"; Complexion: Black; Eye Color: Black; Hair Color: "Wooly"<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Occupation: Laborer</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Enlisted: 3/4/1864 in Pottsville, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Credited to: Tamaqua, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: Middlesex, New Jersey</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><u style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Charles Titus</span></u></b><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Private<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Company D<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />3rd USCI</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Age: 30; Height: 5'8 1/2"; Complexion: Black; Eye Color: Black; Hair Color: "Wooly"<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Occupation: Laborer</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Enlisted: 7/4/1863 in Philadelphia<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Born: Chester County, PA<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Discharged: 10/31/1865 at Jacksonville, Florida<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Buried: Bethel A.M.E. Cemetery, Pottsville, PA</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Flag of the 3rd USCT<br />"Rather Die Freemen Than Live To Be A Slave"</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Enlisted: 1/12/1865 in Pottsville, PA</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Schuylkill County's best-known black Civil War veteran, Nicholas Biddle, was not, officially, a soldier, but his was the proud distinction of shedding the first blood in the conflict. His story can be found <a href="http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/pa-heritage/nick-biddle-forgotten-hero-civil-war.html" target="_blank">here</a>, in an article I wrote years ago for <i>Pennsylvania Heritage</i> magazine. </span></div>
John David Hoptakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521690201528852944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-92193086214366497602019-06-12T06:32:00.000-04:002019-06-12T06:37:28.761-04:00A Sad End to the Life of Private William Fitzpatrick, Company C, 48th Pennsylvania<div style="text-align: justify;">
By mid-January 1871, newspapers across Pennsylvania were running Mary Fitzpatrick's desperate plea.</div>
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She needed help finding her son, William, who, on December 5, 1870, vanished from her home in Greenbury, in Schuylkill County's Heckscherville Valley. William Fitzpatrick was a veteran of the 48th Pennsylvania who suffered from mental illness and his mother now feared greatly for his safety. </div>
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In her call for help, printed in newspapers in Pottsville, Harrisburg, Lancaster, and Pittsburgh, we can feel her pain and her desperation: </div>
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From the Pittsburgh <i>Daily Commercial</i>, January 21, 1871: </div>
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<i>"Four weeks since Wm. Fitzpatrick left his mother's residence, while suffering from mental illness, and has not since been heard from. It is feared that he may have encountered some mishap, and information in regard to him can be sent either to Mary Fitzpatrick, New Castle, P.O., Schuylkill County, or to the Miners' Journal. He is about forty years of age, slender, light hair, and is about five feet six inches high. He was a member of the Forty-eighth Pennsylvania Regiment in the late war." </i></div>
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Fitzpatrick, a coal miner, served throughout the entirety of the Civil War, enlisting on September 11, 1861, as a private in Company C, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry, and being mustered out of service when the regiment was disbanded in July 1865, as a reenlisted veteran volunteer. Remarkably, it appears that Fitzpatrick emerged unscathed, at least physically, from the conflict, suffering no wound or bodily injury during his four years in uniform and the many battles in which he was engaged. There are no pension records for a William Fitzpatrick of Company C, 48th Pennsylvania. But perhaps the war left upon him an indelible mental scar. </div>
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Sadly, by the time the newspapers in Harrisburg and Lancaster and Pittsburgh picked up on Mary Fitzpatrick's desperate plea in mid-to-late January 1871, it was already too late. As it turned out, William Fitzpatrick did not wander too far from home. Instead, he had made his way to an abandoned coal drift in the Wolf Creek Colliery, near his mother's home in the Heckscherville Valley. He walked some two hundred yards into the drift where he must have decided to get some sleep. He removed one boot and one sock, and also his coat, which he folded and placed behind his head as a pillow. </div>
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His body was discovered on Monday, January 8, 1871, by several men who explored the drift that morning; to them, at least initially, it must have appeared that Fitzpatrick was merely asleep, as he was discovered in a reclining position, his head laying upon his folded coat. It was soon revealed that he was, in fact, dead. The coroner determined that William Fitzpatrick, just forty years of age, froze to death. </div>
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William Fitzpatrick's remains lay at rest in Minersville, in what is now Saint Vincent de Paul Cemetery #1 along Sunbury Street, nearby those of his mother, Mary, who outlived her son by more than thirty years, passing away in October 1901.<br />
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<br />John David Hoptakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521690201528852944noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-68143575836711726852019-05-11T06:13:00.001-04:002020-03-23T06:06:43.686-04:00Faithful to Every Duty: The Life and Death of Lieutenant Henry Clay Jackson, Company G, 48th Pennsylvania<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the Spring of 1861, twenty-four-year-old Henry Clay Jackson, from St. Clair, in the heart of Schuylkill County's coal country, was looking forward to a career in the classroom. He was enrolled at the Millersville Normal School, studying to become a teacher. But then civil war came and Jackson--"From a sense of duty and not impulse"--decided to answer his country's call. He left his studies behind and entered the ranks of the Lafayette Rifles, a company recruited largely from St. Clair which soon became Company B, 14th Pennsylvania. Attached to General Robert Patterson's command in the Shenandoah Valley, the 14th saw no action during its three-month term of service</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">. But when his term of service with the 14th expired in late July, 1861, Jackson enlisted once more, this time to a three-year term in the ranks of Company G, 48th Pennsylvania. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">It was not long before Jackson proved himself a brave soldier and a natural leader. Upon his enlistment with the 48th, he was appointed as Company G's Orderly Sergeant and in June 1862, was promoted once more, this time to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. On August 29, 1862, at Second Bull Run, Jackson was among the scores of soldiers of the 48th to fall into enemy hands, having been cut off in an unfinished railroad embankment and caught up in a devastating Confederate counterattack. As a prisoner of war, Jackson was sent south and soon found himself confined in Richmond's Libby Prison where he remained but a short time before being exchanged. Returning to the regiment, Jackson narrowly survived the struggle at Fredericksburg when a shell burst directly in front of him, so close that it covered his face and neck with powder. He was more badly wounded in combat the following year, at Knoxville, Tennessee, in late November 1863, when a shell fragment tore into his thigh while he was in command of the regimental picket line. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Having been captured and briefly confined in Libby, having survived a close call at Fredericksburg and a more serious wound at Knoxville, Jackson's luck ultimately ran out during the slaughter that was Spotsylvania on May 12, 1864. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">While lying prone in the line of battle, Jackson was struck with a ball through the neck, just above the collar bone, with the bullet coming to a stop in his chest. A number of his fellow soldiers carried the stricken lieutenant from the field, among them Sgt. William Auman--who would one day ride alongside Teddy Roosevelt during the Spanish-American War." Auman remembered that Jackson was lying next to him when he was hit. "When he was struck he fell against me," related Auman, "I asked him where he was hit; he whispered 'I don't know,' and then his head fell to one side and I saw that he was dying." Indeed, Jackson took his last breath while being carried to the rear. Auman wrote that Private William Atkinson of Company G buried Jackson's remains near where he had fallen, and that he hoped that they would be able to send his remains back home to Schuylkill County for reburial, but this never came about. Instead, the remains of Lieutenant Henry Clay Jackson were reinterred after the war and laid to rest at the National Cemetery in Fredericksburg, Virginia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>"Thus fell Lieutenant Jackson, faithful to every duty, and though sensible to danger and peril, yet braving them with heroic disregard of self. He had determined if his life was spared to remain in the army till the last organized force of rebellion was overthrown. Gifted with a vigorous physical organization, considerable energy, a clear and active mind, ready utterance, strict integrity, and withal modest and affectionate, his friends had high hopes of his success in a civil profession, but he was reserved by Providence to be one of the numerous martyrs in behalf of the Union, and the honor and free institutions of our country."</i></span></div>
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John David Hoptakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521690201528852944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-91059780700119838152019-02-02T07:58:00.000-05:002019-02-02T09:04:04.070-05:00"A Good Man Gone:" The Story of Private John C. Cole, of Pottsville: Husband, Father, Soldier, 43rd United States Colored TroopsJohn Cole was forty-four years old in the spring of 1864; a shoemaker from Pottsville, Pennsylvania, who was able to comfortably provide for his family. He had been married already for seventeen years--he and his wife, Caroline, having wed on March 25, 1847, in Philadelphia--and he was the father of four sons: the oldest, Charles, being then sixteen years of age, followed by John Oliver Cole (age 15), Joseph Cole (11), and Alexander Cole (5). Tragically, John and Caroline Cole had lost a child, William Douglas Cole, in the 1850s, but, in that spring of 1864, Caroline was pregnant once more, this time, as it turned out, with a baby girl who would be born in early May and who would be named Estilena. But when Estilena was born, her father was many miles away from their home in Pottsville, serving in the uniform of the United States as a soldier in the 43rd United States Colored Troops (U.S.C.T.).<br />
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We can only speculate as to what it was that motivated forty-four-year-old John C. Cole to volunteer as a soldier and fight for a country in which, as African-Americans, he and his family were denied full citizenship and treated as inferior; to leave behind the comforts of his home in Pottsville--his family and his pregnant wife--to don the Union blue. Perhaps it was a strong patriotic impulse; a desire to fight for all the United States stood for and all it represented--the ideals and promises, at least, of the nation's founding. Or perhaps it was a determination to fight for the literal freedom and liberation of four million persons from the brutal bonds of slavery. Or perhaps it was a combination of such aspirations that compelled him to enlist. He became a soldier on March 30, 1864--a private in Company E, 43rd United States Colored Troops, which was a part of the First Brigade, Fourth Division, of the Ninth Army Corps. Commanding that brigade was one of Cole's fellow-townsmen: Joshua K. Sigfried of Pottsville.<br />
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Three summers earlier, Sigfried had helped to raise the 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, a regiment recruited almost entirely from Schuylkill County and in whose ranks were a good number of coal miners. He had led the 48th from 1862 until the spring of 1864 when he was asked by General Burnside to take command of one of the two brigades of black soldiers that composed the newly-created Fourth Division of Burnside's Ninth Corps. Sigfried's elevation to brigade command allowed for Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Pleasants to assume command of the now veteran 48th Pennsylvania Infantry and in the summer of 1864 it would be Pleasants who would mastermind the engineering and tunneling of the Petersburg Mine, work carried out by his soldiers in the 48th Pennsylvania.<br />
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The mine was detonated early on a scorching hot Saturday morning--July 30, 1864. Pleasants's plan had succeeded brilliantly but the follow up assault would prove one of the worst disasters of the war for the Union army. Pleasants and his soldiers, who had labored so hard, in the excavation and tunneling of the mine were exempted from participating in the attack and so, caked with mud and dirt, they watched the terrible ordeal unfold, stunned--and angered, no doubt--that their efforts were so infamously squandered. They would watch as line after line of Union blue--primarily from the 9th Corps--rushed forward, only to have their attack stalled and then stopped in the Crater or just beyond. Lines were enveloped in the smoke and in the dust; soldiers crowded, unable to move, stuck in the blasted Confederate trenches and even in the Crater itself. Efforts were made to break the stalemate at the front, including a determined attack made by the black soldiers of the Fourth Division.<br />
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Around 7:30 that hot morning, Col. Joshua Sigfried led his brigade forward. Charging forward within the ranks of the 43rd U.S.C.T. was forty-four-year-old John C. Cole, the shoemaker from Pottsville. As he formed in line prior to the attack--forlorn, as it would turn out--we can only now wonder what he was thinking as he prepared for his first fight. No doubt he thought of his family, 300 quiet miles away in Pottsville; of his wife Caroline, his four boys, and his baby girl whom, sadly, he would never get to see, never get to hold. . .<br />
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At some point during the fierce struggle, Private John Cole was wounded. He somehow made it back to Union lines, either on his own or with some assistance. After five painful days in a makeshift field hospital behind the lines at Petersburg, Cole later placed in an ambulance headed toward another hospital, this one at City Point. It was in that ambulance, on August 4, 1864, and during the painful journey to City Point, that John Cole died. His remains were laid to rest hundred of miles away from his home and family in Hopewell, Virginia, at what became City Point National Cemetery, though his stone misidentifies his remains as "B. Cole."<br />
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"An industrious and respected resident of Pottsville;" "an excellent workman;" "an exemplary man;" and "one who gave his life freely in defence of the great principle of human freedom and happiness;" "A good man gone."<br />
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A fitting tribute, indeed, to John Cole.<br />
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<br />John David Hoptakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521690201528852944noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-87727956510064780352019-01-17T06:49:00.003-05:002019-01-17T06:49:46.967-05:00"Distressing Occurrence:" The Tragic, Untimely Death of Sergeant Samuel Clemens, Co. E, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry <div style="text-align: justify;">
Samuel Clemens survived the very worst of the American Civil War, making it through all the trying campaigns and hellish fights in which the 48th Pennsylvania was engaged, though certainly not unscathed. Records indicate that was wounded no fewer than three times in battle: at Fredericksburg in December 1862, at the Wilderness in May 1864, and at Petersburg on August 16, 1864. </div>
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Still, though, in late July 1865, he made it back home. </div>
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After serving as a private in the three-month 16th Pennsylvania Infantry (April-July 1861), Clemens, along with three of his brothers, enlisted into the ranks of Company E, 48th PA, in the summer of 1861. At the time of his enlistment, he was 25 years of age, stood 5'6" in height, had a Light Complexion, Grey Eyes, and Sandy Hair. His occupation was given as Laborer, employed, no doubt, at one of Schuylkill County's many coal mines. And it was back to the mines he went following his discharge from the army. Sadly--tragically--it was there--and not on any of the Civil War's many sanguinary fields of battle on which he fought--where he lost his life; on the night of October 31, 1865, just three months after Clemens and the surviving veterans of the 48th Pennsylvania returned home from the conflict. And it was quite sudden, too. An article that appeared in the <i>Miners' Journal</i> a week following his death, reported that Clemens had lost his footing at work and fell down the Windy Harbor coal slope, plummeting some ninety feet to the bottom and was instantly killed. The article, entitled a "Distressing Occurrence," noted that Clemens was an "honorable, patriotic young man," who served his country "from the commencement of the Rebellion to its close," and who "was distinguished for bravery and good conduct." It further noted that Clemens had just recently been married and now left "a young wife and a large circle of friends to deplore their sad bereavement." The remains of Samuel Clemens were laid to rest in the Presbyterian Cemetery, Pottsville, Pennsylvania. </div>
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A sad story, for sure (and one cannot help but feel sorry for Clemens, who made it home from the war only to be killed three months later) though his was certainly not the only occurrence of this. George Beaumont from St. Clair, for example, who served in the 88th Pennsylvania and who lost two brothers in battle--William at Gettysburg and John at Petersburg--made it back home and after the war returned to work in the coal mines. And there he was killed, in November 1868, at age 35.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">These and other such tragedies only serve to reinforce Captain John Porter's assertions that, in many ways, army life was much safer than work in the coal mines. <span style="background-color: white;">A native of Middleport in Schuylkill County, Porter commanded Company I, 48th PA. Many of Porter's volunteers were farmers, students, clerks. . .but there was, of cours</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline;">e, a good number of coal miners. During his time in uniform, Porter wrote often to his wife and several times expressed his opinion that soldiering in the Civil War was far easier than laboring in the coal mines. From Pleasant Valley, Maryland, on October 14, 1862, for example, Porter wrote that while he would never "persuade" anyone to enlist, still he was "satisfied that the soldier has an easier life than the man who has to work from early dawn til late at night in the Coal of Schuylkill County."</span></span></div>
John David Hoptakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521690201528852944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-38511345297538715312019-01-10T07:00:00.001-05:002019-01-10T07:00:17.893-05:00At Long Last. . .A Regimental History of the 96th Pennsylvania! <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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The 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, although perhaps the best known, was certainly not the <i>only</i> unit raised primarily in Schuylkill County during the American Civil War. Companies A and C of the 50th Pennsylvania, several companies of the nine-month 129th Pennsylvania, and several companies of the 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry, for example, were also recruited principally from the county's coal towns and agricultural districts. And then there was Schuylkill County's "other" regiment--the 96th Pennsylvania Volunteers, a hard-fighting, tough as nails infantry regiment which was organized during the late summer of 1861 and which served for the next three years in the famed Sixth Corps of the Army of the Potomac, participating in some of the war's most sanguinary fights and in some of its most storied campaigns. I say "other" regiment simply because, for far too long, the history and the memory of the 96th Pennsylvania remained little told and often sadly overlooked, particularly compared to other Schuylkill County units, such as the 48th. But now, at long last, we have a regimental history of the 96th Pennsylvania Infantry. </div>
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Written by David Ward, a native of Schuylkill County and a long-time student of the 96th who wrote about the regiment for his master's thesis, <i>The 96th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War </i>provides an excellent history of this long overlooked regiment. Lively and well-paced, Ward's examination of the 96th takes us from the regiment's origins in Schuylkill County and then follows the actions of the regiment during its three-years of service as part of the Sixth Corps, Army of the Potomac, documenting well its transition from a green, untested unit to a hard-fighting, seasoned regiment that came to be relied upon for its steadfastness and its intrepidity upon the field of battle; a regiment that departed Schuylkill County late in 1861 with 1,200 men and which returned, three years later, with only 120 left. Ward tells of the marches and the battlefield maneuverings, chronicles the successes as well as the failures of the regiment on their many fields of battle, and provides a dramatic look at the regiment's most famous battlefield actions--at Gaines Mill, Crampton's Gap, Salem Church, and at Spotsylvania, each where the 96th suffered fearful losses. Along the way, Ward offers keen analysis of the leadership demonstrated by the regiment's high ranking officers upon these fields of battle, with a focus on the 96th's two commanding officers, Col. Henry Cake and Lt. Col. William Lessig. But perhaps even more interesting, or at least more fascinating, is the examination Ward provides on <i>all</i> the political in-fighting and controversies that seemingly plagued the high levels of command in the 96th; of Cake's and then Lessig's maneuverings to bypass the seniority system when it came to promotion and, instead, to nominate and commission their friends to fill vacancies. We also learn of how these two men, although brave and competent battlefield leaders, actively worked to ruin the military careers of those they either did not personally like or who stood in the way of their cronies' promotions. This was something not unique to the 96th; indeed, it occurred far too often in volunteer Civil War regiments. Yet, in the case of the 96th, it seemed a pronounced and persistent reality. </div>
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While Ward does a fine job in telling the regiment's military history--its actions on their fields of battle--one of the strengths of this book is that he also nicely weaves into the narrative a social history of the regiment as well. For example, Ward examines the social and ethnic backgrounds of the 96th's soldiers, which essentially mirrored the social structure of Schuylkill County at this time. We discover, also, the motivations of these men--why they enlisted and how the endured both the monotony of camp life and the sheer horror and hell of the battle--as well as their thoughts on the war itself as well as the war's leaders. Ward also does an excellent job in documenting how the soldiers in the regiment felt about race, slavery, and emancipation, and how these thoughts changed over time. </div>
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To tell the story of the 96th Pennsylvania--of the regiment's many trials and triumphs--Ward relies most heavily on the soldiers themselves, utilizing their letters, diaries, newspaper accounts, and memoirs and in so doing presents an authentic history using the soldiers own words. The firsthand accounts of those who fought either alongside or against the 96th on the battlefield are also plentifully used throughout. Ward also presents the history of the regiment objectively, telling the good as well as the bad, where the regiment succeeded and where it fell short or failed. </div>
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I know David Ward personally and knew for some time he was writing a history of the 96th. I am so very pleased to see his dedicated efforts come to fruition. At long last, we have a regimental history of this long overlooked regiment. This is an excellent book and for anyone with an interest in the Civil War soldier; for anyone who has an interest in the Civil War's Eastern Theater and in the famed Sixth Corps; and especially for anyone who is interested in Pennsylvania's and particularly Schuylkill County's Civil War history, it is highly recommended. </div>
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For more and to order your copy, click <a href="https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-96th-pennsylvania-volunteers-in-the-civil-war/" target="_blank">here.</a></div>
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Here is what some others have said about <i>The 96th Pennsylvania in the Civil War</i>: </div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">“David Ward’s </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">The 96th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War</i><span style="color: #212121; font-family: merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">is a fine history of the Infantry. A regiment in the Army of the Potomac’s Sixth Corps, the 96th Pennsylvania served with distinction in the campaigns in the East. Ward’s book has all the elements of a model regimental history from its moving narrative to its research in many unpublished manuscripts and newspapers. The book is filled with accounts by its members and all the intrigues that plagued volunteer units. It is a most welcome work.”— Jeffry D. Wert, author of</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;"> </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">The Sword of Lincoln: The Army of the Potomac</i></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">“A History of the Ninety-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers is one of the best Civil War regimental histories to be published in years. In a style reminiscent of Bruce Catton, author David Ward utilizes hundreds of first hand soldiers accounts to weave a narrative that puts the reader in the picture from the units genesis in the coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania through its baptism of fire at Gaines Mill and the bloodbaths of Crampton’s Gap and the Overland Campaign. Ward utilizes the ‘new history,’ blending both military and social history to tell the complete story the men of the 96th”—Ted Alexander, Historian (retired), Antietam National Battlefield, author of</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;"> </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">The Battle of Antietam: The Bloodiest Day</i></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">“The 96th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was one of the great combat units of the Civil War. Yet, amazingly, this hard-hitting outfit has enjoyed no regimental history—until now. This book fills that gap. It covers the 96th Pennsylvania in the chaos of battle, on the march and in camp. Generous quotations from officers’ and soldiers’ letters, diaries, and memoirs, which were uncovered through prodigious research in dozens of manuscript repositories, give the narrative a human touch.</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;"> </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">The 96th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War</i><span style="color: #212121; font-family: merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">belongs in every Civil War library.”—Richard J. Sommers, author of</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;"> </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">Richmond Redeemed: The Siege at Petersburg</i></div>
John David Hoptakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521690201528852944noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-90687875932644533962018-12-11T09:37:00.001-05:002018-12-11T09:37:54.668-05:00"They Fell While Gallantly Defending a Just and Holy Cause:" The Dead of the 48th Pennsylvania at Fredericksburg<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The 48th Pennsylvania Infantry, which formed part of Nagle's brigade in Sturgis's division, took part in this forlorn assault. It was sometime around 1:00 p.m., reported the 48th's commanding officer, Colonel Joshua Sigfried, when Nagle's brigade moved to the attack. The 48th was initially held in reserve, on "an open field to the rear of town." Before them, the other regiments of Nagle's brigade--units from Maryland, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island--advanced directly toward the Confederate position, at the base of the heights. A heavy, incessant infantry and artillery fire tore into the surging blue lines, which were further disrupted by a creek, a rail line, and a railroad embankment. Even the 48th, although held in reserve, was not immune to the shot and shell and a number of men were wounded and one was killed. Around 2:30, the 48th received orders to move forward, to relieve the units on the front line, who had by now been pinned down by the murderous fire. <b>"</b><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><b>We started and went at double-quick (a distance of half a mile) under a most terrific fire of shell, grape and cannister from the enemy's batteries,"</b> reported Sigfried. Oliver Bosbyshell of Company G recorded that <b>"The Forty-eighth marched by the flank toward the right a short distance until some obstruction had been passed when the command, 'Left face, double quick time,' came and running over the clear space down into a hollow, and up a slight rise of ground, the regiment became hotly engaged with the enemy." </b>The soldiers of the 48th moved to front, exposed to the deadly fire, and arrived at a slight rise where they relieved the 21st Massachusetts Infantry, whose soldiers had exhausted their ammunition. And there the 48th remained until dusk when they, too, ran out of bullets. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>James Williams </b>was twenty years of age when, in September 1861, he was mustered into service as a private in Company A, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry. He stood 5'6" in height, had dark eyes, dark hair, but a light complexion. By trade, he was a boatman who called Berks County, Pennsylvania, home. In his regimental history, Oliver Bosbyshell noted that it was a "man in Company A" who had been killed while the regiment was lying in reserve on the afternoon of December 13, waiting to go in. That man was Williams whose remains now lie at rest in the Fredericksburg National Cemetery.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Like Williams, thirty-three-year-old <b>Corporal Reuben Robinson </b>of Company B, was a boatman who also called Berks County home, his residence in Reading. Unlike Williams, though, he was married, having wed Anna Weidner in June 1856 at the First German Reformed Church in Reading. He was also a father. It appears that, upon their marriage, Anna had a child--a son named James Franklin--though it is not quite clear (and probably unlikely) if Reuben was the child's father or if young James was the biological son of another man. Anna's application for a pension included testimonials from neighbors, however, that acknowledged that as long as they knew Reuben, that he always referred to James Franklin as his own and treated him as such. "He frequently declared in the presence of each of us," testified a few of Robinson's neighbors in Reading, "that it was <i>his </i>child." Sadly, on the 13th of December 1862, for James Franklin, the man who raised him as his father, Reuben Robinson, was killed in action before Marye's Heights. He and his mother would receive $8.00 a month from the government for their loss. Robinson, too, is interred in the Fredericksburg National Cemetery. </span></span></div>
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<b>Michael Divine (Devine)</b> also served in Company B. He hailed from Branchdale, in the heart of Schuylkill County's anthracite coal lands, and he was, like many others in the regiment, a miner. His father, William Devine, who was born in Scotland, was also a coal miner and, like so many miners, gave his life to coal, dying of asthma and dropsy in Branchdale on January 7, 1857, when his son, Michael, was only fourteen years old. William Devine's death forced Michael into the coal mines at an early age and the young man worked to support his now widowed mother, Catherine. Michael gave the entirety of his seven-dollar-a-week pay to his mother and, when in the army, sent home $10.00 a month to support her. Catherine Divine, who lost a husband in 1857, lost her son Michael five years later, on December 13, 1862, when he was killed at age nineteen by a shell while attacking Marye's Heights at Fredericksburg. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">James, Margaret, and Thomas Kinney, Jr., also lost their father to Fredericksburg's slaughter on December 13, 1862. Their dad, <b>Thomas Kinney</b>, was among the older soldiers in the regiment, enlisting in September 1861, into Company D at age 40. He was a laborer who stood 5'10" in height, had a dark complexion, dark hair, and blue eyes. He was born in Ireland but had immigrated to the United States sometime before 1844, for it was in that year that he married his wife, Charity Kinney, in Eaton, New Hampshire. Sometime before 1860, however, the Kinney's settled in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Like so many others in Union blue, Thomas Kinney fought for and died for his adopted country when he fell at Fredericksburg, 156 years ago. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">These were the men who lost their lives on December 13, 1862, while assaulting the Confederate position along the foot of Marye's Heights. Yet there were two other members of the 48th who died at Fredericksburg: Privates John Willi<span style="font-family: inherit;">ams and William Hill, both of Company B, who both died very late on the night preceding the battle--December 12--while in town; killed, of all things, by the collapse of a chimney. The town of Fredericksburg had been bombarded, looted, sacked and in some places burned; it was a dangerous place to be, especially where the 48th was stationed. As Lieutenant Pollock of Company G related in a letter home: "</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">About four o’clock [on December 12] we were marched down the street nearest the river to about the middle of the town and halted just in front of where a whole block of houses had been burned to the ground, nothing was left of them but the tall chimneys and the smouldering embers. Here we had orders to bivouac for the night and as we could not light any fires the men made their coffee and cooked their evening meal on the burning ruins. Soon after dark one of the chimneys fell down with a loud crash and as the men were lying all around under them at every little there was we all supposed two or three must be badly injured, if not killed, but by good fortune all the men got out but one, who was not seriously injured, he being near the bottom." Yet Pollock's information was incorrect; tragically, two men were, indeed, killed. <b>William Hill </b>was a coal miner from Pottsville, who was thirty-three years of age when he enlisted into the ranks of Company B, 48th, in September 1861. </span><span style="background-color: white;"> <b>John Williams</b> was also a coal miner, though he was from Ashland, and but twenty-one years of age.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">In addition to those who were killed, the 48th Pennsylvania also sustained 43 additional casualties in the number of men who were wounded, and we know that for some, their wounds proved mortal. Such was the case for Corporal <b>Joseph Carter</b> of Company A, Corporal <b>John H. Derr </b>of Company D, and Corporal <b>Edward F. Shappell </b>of Company I. Carter was an overseer from Tamaqua, likely a supervisor at a mine, though only twenty-two years of age when he enlisted in September 1861 into the ranks of Company A, 48th PA. He stood 5'10" in height, had a light complexion, grey eyes, and dark hair. Carter succumbed to his wounds soon after sustaining them in combat at Fredericksburg. John H. Derr lived for three weeks following his Fredericksburg wound, spending Christmas and New Year's Day in the hospital, and passing away on January 2, 1863. He was a blacksmith by profession and twenty-one years of age when he traded in his blacksmith's tools for the musket of a soldier in September 1861. His remains were laid to rest at the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Edward Shappell hailed from Orwigsburg in the rich farmlands of southern Schuylkill County and was a teamster by trade. He enlisted late in August 1861 at age twenty-seven. He stood 5'10", had sandy colored hair, grey eyes, and a light complexion. The date of his death remains unknown though it followed his wounding at Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862. </span></span></div>
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John David Hoptakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521690201528852944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-26576928966195928732018-12-04T05:13:00.001-05:002018-12-04T05:13:43.639-05:00Soldier Story: Private William Straw, Musician/Fifer, Company K, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
I always enjoy seeing a 'new' face of the 48th Pennsylvania, an image, that is, one of its soldiers I had never before seen, and thanks to Norman Gasbarro at <a href="https://civilwar.gratzpa.org/" target="_blank">Civil War Blo</a>g and to the descendants of a 48th soldier who posted photographs of him on a public <a href="http://ancestry.com/">ancestry.com</a> family tree, I recently got to see a several images of Private William Straw of Company K, and discover much more about him. </div>
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According to the information posted by his descendants, William Straw was born on October 12, 1841, in Packington, Leicestershire, England, the son of John and Frances Straw. Sometime either in 1847 or 1849, when William was either six or eight years of age, he and his mother immigrated to the United States, though there is some thought that she died on board the ship on their way to America. If this was the case, then it is likely young William Straw was met by and raised in the home of a relative who had already been residing in the United States. By 1860, he was residing in Llewellyn, in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, and his occupation was that of a blacksmith. On April 22, 1861, ten days following the outbreak of civil war, nineteen-year-old William Straw was mustered into service as a private in Company G, 6th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, a three-month regiment that was mustered out of service on July 27, 1861. After his ninety-day enlistment in the 6th PA, Straw volunteered once more and on October 1, 1861, was once more mustered into service, this time as a private in Company K, 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered in and would serve as a company musician, playing the fife. He was almost twenty years old, stood 5'3 1/4" in height, and was described as having a Light Complexion, Dark Eyes, and Light Hair. Straw served in the regiment for the duration of the conflict, having reenlisted for another "three-year or the course of the war" term in the winter of '64-'64. Mustered out when the regiment was disbanded on July 27, 1865, Straw returned to Schuylkill County and just a few month later, on October 1, married Mary Elizabeth Reed in Pottsville. Together, the couple had ten children over the next nineteen years though, sadly, two--a daughter, Minnie, and a daughter Dollie--would die in early childhood. The Straw family moved first to Tremont, then to Williamstown, and finally, to Philadelphia by 1894. </div>
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William Straw died at age 64 from the effects of a stroke on April 5, 1906, and was buried at the Hillside Cemetery, Montgomery, PA. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Straw and his Wife, Mary, touring Devil's Den at the Gettysburg Battlefield</b><br />[ancestry.com]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Grave of William Straw</b><br />Hillside Cemetery, Montgomery, Pennsylvania<br />[findagrave.com] </td></tr>
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My thanks again go to Norman Gasbarro for locating this image of Private/Musician William Straw and posting about it on his <a href="https://civilwar.gratzpa.org/2017/09/william-straw-of-williamstown-1890-portrait-found/" target="_blank">website</a> as well as to Straw's descendants who made these photographs and the information about Straw's life public on ancestry.com. </div>
John David Hoptakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521690201528852944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-79706370924785177972018-11-04T06:33:00.000-05:002018-11-04T06:33:09.453-05:00Is This A New Face of the Forty-Eighth? <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I don't know how many times I've said it or heard it said over the years in reference to Civil War soldier photographs and particularly CDVs: "If only they would have signed their names," or "If only someone would have written down their names. . ." </div>
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This is the common lament for most who collect Civil War images, and especially for those who collect images of soldiers from just one single regiment, such as the 48th Pennsylvania. But the fact is that for far too many Civil War soldier CDVs, there is no identification, no name...nothing to tell us, really, who they were, what they did, or what became of them during the war or after, if, indeed, there was an <i>after </i>for them. Instead, we have just an image, typically of a young man in a blue uniform, with a look of youthful pride or determination upon their face and more often than not, it seems, an officer. Yet even without a name (and who today writes the names of friends, family, or even oneself on the back of their photographs?), there are sometimes clues we can follow in an unidentified soldier's photograph. What is the photographer's backmark, for example; where was the photograph taken? What kind of uniform is the soldier wearing? Is there anything on that uniform, such as a corps badge or hat brass, to help better narrow down the search? Sometimes, and especially for those who collect from a single regiment or at least for me who has spent twenty+ years searching for 48th PA images, the question is: does he have the <i>look </i>of a 48th Pennsylvania soldier. Not an exact science or question, to be sure. . .but in many cases, these are the only clues we get.<br />
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Have a look at this Civil War soldier CDV, both front and back. . .<br />
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What are your thoughts at first glance? Is it the youth of this soldier? His rather short stature, perhaps? Maybe his uniform first grabbed your attention; maybe that it appears his uniform is <i>way </i>too big! especially his trousers. The photographer's backmark? That there are letters and numerals on the top of the kepi he is holding? These were the things that immediately caught my attention, along with the thought, at least to me after more than two decades collecting, that this soldier has the <i>look</i> of a the 48th, strange as it sounds. </div>
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But was this soldier actually in the 48th? The 48th Pennsylvania was recruited almost entirely from Schuylkill County and Pottsville, the county seat and largest city, was home to a number of photographers during the Civil War, most notably A.M. Allen and Mortimer. This image, of course, has the Mortimer backmark, as does this image of Major Joseph Gilmour of the 48th. . .<br />
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As you can see, same carpet, same chair...Were these two images also taken during the <i>same</i> time? The Gilmour image was taken in February-March 1864; was the photograph of the unidentified soldier taken during this time as well, when the regiment was home on furlough and recruiting new members? Was this young man one of those new recruits who joined the regiment in the winter of 1864? Note the absence of veterans' stripes on his uniform and, again, his youthful appearance. . . </div>
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Certainly, though, the 48th Pennsylvania was not the <i>only </i>unit to be recruited from Schuylkill County and Pottsville...not by a long shot. There was the 96th PA, for instance; several companies of the 50th PA, several of the 129th PA, and several from the 7th PA Cavalry, in addition to scores of other regiments who drew recruits from Schuylkill County. And, well, during the labor disturbances in '62-'63 and into '64 there were New York and New Jersey volunteer soldiers brought in to the county to help protect against draft resistance and violence and to help ensure the mines kept pumping out the anthracite to fuel the war effort. Many of these New Yorkers and New Jersyians no doubt went to Allen's or Mortimer's studios to have their 'likeness' taken. </div>
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It's really, <i>really </i>difficult to see...partially hidden and upside down.<br />
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Trying to make sense of those letters and numbers, I scanned the image into my computer at a high resolution, magnified it, clarified it, and turned it right side up. . .<br />
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Is any of this now any clearer?<br />
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To me, while I cannot make out the top letter, which would have denoted what company this soldier belonged to (A, B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,K---and somehow I 'see' an E there), it does appear to me that the middle two numbers are, indeed, a "48" and the bottom letters "PV" for Pennsylvania Volunteers.<br />
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Take a step back and look at it from a distance?<br />
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Again, it does appear to me that this young man was a soldier in the 48th Pennsylvania.<br />
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Or am I just 'seeing' 48 PV because I <i>want </i>to see it? Are the letters and numbers simply too blurry to tell for sure. . .<br />
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