Captains
Joseph
H. Hoskings: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 29; Height: 5'9 ¼; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Black; Hair: Black;
Occupation: Carpenter; Occupation: Minersville; Date of Discharge: 9/30/1864;
Notes: Wounded at Petersburg, 8/2 or 8/3/1864; Discharged at End of Term; Born:
1/25/1833; Died: 5/20/1913 in Pottsville, PA; Buried: Charles Baber Cemetery,
Pottsville, PA.
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| Joseph Hoskings [Patriotic Order Sons of America] |
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| Joseph Hoskings [From The Story of the Forty-Eighth by Joseph Gould] |
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Jno.
L. Williams: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 25; Height: 5'4 ½; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Black;
Occupation: Miner; Residence: Schuylkill County; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865;
Notes: Promoted from 2nd Lt. to 1st Lt. 7/13/1864; to
Captain, 10/30/1864; Veteran; Died: 10/10/1873; Buried: First United Methodist Cemetery, Minersville, PA.
Miners' Journal, 10/17/1863
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Lieutenants
Henry
James: 1st Lt.; Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 39; Height: 5'7 ¾; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Dark;
Occupation: Superintendent; Date of Discharge: 6/26/1864; Notes: Discharged on
Surgeon's Certificate; Died: 6/8/1894; Possibly Buried: Shamokin Cemetery, Shamokin, PA.
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| Henry James [Patriotic Order Sons of America] |
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| Henry James [Courtesy of Ronn Palm, Museum of Civil War Images] |
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| Henry James [From The Story of the Forty Eighth by Joseph Gould] |
The Miners' Journal, 6/9/1894
Pottsville Republican, 6/8/1894
James
A. Easton: 1st Lt.; Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 22; Height: 5'6 ½; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Brown; Hair: Brown;
Occupation: Miner; Residence: Ashland; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes:
Promoted from Sergeant to 2nd Lt., 6/28/1864 or 7/13/1864; to 1st Lt.,
11/15/1864; Veteran; Born: 4/2/1839 in Pottsville; Died: 5/15/1895 at age 56; Buried: Shawnee Cemetery, Plymouth, PA.
The Times Leader, 5/16/1895
Wilkes-Barre Times, 5/15/1895
Henry
Reese: 2nd Lt.; Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 25; Height: 5'9 ½; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Light;
Occupation: Miner; Residence: Minersville; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes:
Promoted from Sergeant to to Orderly Sergeant 7/12/1864; promoted to 2nd Lt. 10/30/1864; Wounded at Petersburg,
4/2/1865; Veteran; Born: 7/5/1835 at Monmouthshire, Wales; Died: 5/3/1893 at age 57; Buried: Shamokin Cemetery, Shamokin, PA.
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| Henry Reese [From Gould The Story of the Forty Eighth] |
The Philadelphia Times, 5/5/1893
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Sergeants
John
W. Jenkins: 1st Sgt.; Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 25; Height: 5'7 ½; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark;
Occupation: Miner; Residence: Minersville; Notes: Wounded by a shell fragment in the head at Antietam,
9/17/1862; Discharged: 12/4/1862; Born: 2/3/1836; Died: 1884 at age 48 in
Girardville, PA; Buried: Minersville Union Cemetery, Minersville, PA.
Posted on findagrave:
"Chapter I. Wounds and Injuries of the Head…trephining for gunshot fracture resulted in recovery. Case. — Private J. W. Jenkins, Co. F, 48th Pennsylvania Volunteers, was wounded at the battle of Antietam, Maryland, September 17th, 1862, by a piece of shell, which caused a punctured fracture of the anterior superior portion of the left parietal bone, and depressed the inner table. He was admitted into Capitol Hospital, Washington, on the 23d, and thence transferred to the De Camp Hospital, David's Island, New York Harbor, on the 28th. On October 3d, Acting Assistant Surgeon William K. Cleveland applied the trephine to the point of fracture, and removed two pieces of the depressed internal table an inch and a quarter in diameter. A few drops of pus escaped. With the exception of a slight headache, there had been no symptoms to denote the presence of pus. Patient made an excellent recovery, and was discharged from the service on December 4th, 1862. The case is reported by Surgeon S. W. Gross, U. S. V. On December 23d, 1869, Pension Examiner D. L. Beeser, reports that the parts are well closed by a firm tissue, and that the patient alleges to suffer neuralgic pains and vertigo at times. His general appearance was good, and he seemed robust and healthy. He rates his disability at one-third. His claim for a pension was pending at the above date." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part I, Volume II: Surgical History by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1870.
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George
Edwards: 1st Sgt.; Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 21; Height: 5'6; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Light;
Occupation: Miner; Residence: Minersville; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes:
Veteran
William E. Taylor: Date
of Enlistment: 10/1/1861; Age at Enlistment: 23; Height: 5'10; Complexion:
Dark; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Miner; Residence: Minersville; Born:
Brooklyn, New York; Notes: Wounded at South Mountain, 9/14/1862; Wounded at the
Wilderness, 5/1864; Discharged; Reenlisted as Private on 3/27/1864; Absent.
Sick in Hospital at Muster Out
Charles
W. Haines: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 23;
Height: 5'7 ¼; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Sandy; Occupation:
Carpenter; Residence: Minersville; Date of Discharge: 9/30/1864; Notes:
Discharged at End of Term; Possibly Died 6/15/1910 and Possibly buried at Greenwood Memorial Terrace, Spokane, WA.
Robert
D. Paden: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment 20 or
21; Height: 5'4 ½; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark; Occupation:
Miner; Residence: New Mines; Promoted from 1st Corporal to Sgt., 7/12/1864; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Captured
9/30/1864; Prisoner of War at Salisbury Prison; Exchanged; Veteran; Born 1/31/1842 in Nova Scotia; Died: 10/5/1928 in Depue, Illinois; Buried:
Greenwood Cemetery, Bureau, Illinois
Bureau County Tribune (Illinois)
10/12/1928
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Richard
Hopkins: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 21;
Height: 5'5 ½; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Peddler;
Residence: Pottsville; Date of Discharge: 11/14/1864; Notes: Wounded at
Armstrong Farm, Virginia, 5/31/1864; Discharged on Surgeon's Certificate;
Veteran; Died: 6/23/1910; Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, Chemung County, New York.
Elmira (NY) Star Gazette, 6/24/1910
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William
J. Wells: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 21;
Height: 5'5; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Light; Occupation: Miner;
Residence: Minersville; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Wounded at
Petersburg, 4/2/1865; Veteran; Born: 1842 in Wales; Died: 2/28/1916; Buried: Riverside
Cemetery, Norristown, PA.
William J. Wells
(Gould, The Story of the Forty-Eighth)
The Evening Public Ledger (Philadelphia), 2/29/1916
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Patrick
Monaghan: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 20 or
21; Height: 5'7; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Light; Occupation:
Laborer; Residence: Minersville; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Medal of
Honor Recipient; Veteran; Born: 11/19/1843; Died: 10/23/1917 in Girardville,
PA; Buried: Saint Joseph’s Cemetery, Girardville, PA.
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| Patrick Monaghan [Attribution Unknown] |
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Austin E. Farrow: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 28; Height: 5'6 ½; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Black; Hair: Black;
Occupation: Sailor; Residence: Philadelphia County; Date of Discharge:
7/17/1865; Notes: Wounded in the wrist at Knoxville, November 1863; Veteran.
Joseph
Gould: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 21;
Height: 5'5 ½; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Light; Occupation:
Superintendent; Residence: Foster Township; Notes: Promoted from Corporal to
Sergeant to Quartermaster Sergeant; See Field and Staff; Veteran; Born:
4/21/1840; Died: 10/8/1918 in Mt. Carmel, PA; Buried: Mount Carmel Cemetery,
Mount Carmel, PA.
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| Joseph Gould (Post War) [From The Story of the Forty Eighth by Joseph Gould] |
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Corporals
Henry Jenkins: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 19; Height: 5'4; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark;
Occupation: Miner; Residence: Minersville; Notes: Mortally Wounded at 2nd Bull
Run, 8/29/1862; died in Georgetown, DC, 9/15/1862; Born: 3/22/1842 in Cardiff,
Wales; Buried: US Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery, Washington,
D.C.
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| Possible Image of Henry Jenkins [Courtesy of Mr. Richard Jenkins] |
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William S. Redner: Date
of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 31; Height: 5'11 ½; Complexion: Dark;
Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Teamster; Residence: Minersville; Notes: Not
on Muster-Out Roll.
William Hopkins: Date of Enlistment: 10/1/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 21; Height: 5'4 ½; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark;
Occupation: Miner; Residence: Minersville; Killed or Mortally Wounded at 2nd
Bull Run; Died: 8/29/1862 or 8/31/1862 of wounds.
G.N.
Douden: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 24;
Height: 5'10 ½; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark; Occupation:
Carpenter; Residence: Minersville; Born: Somerset, England; Notes: Wounded at
2nd Bull Run, 8/29/1862; Not on Muster-Out Roll; Born: 1838; Died: 2/10/1870 at age 31-32 in
Ashland; Buried: First United Methodist Church Cemetery, Minersville, PA.
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Jno. Williams: Date
of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 27; Height: 5'5 ½; Complexion:
Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Miner; Residence: Olyphant, Luzerne
County; Notes: Not on Muster-Out Roll
Samuel
Glenn: Date of Enlistment: 3/1/1862; Age at Enlistment: 19;
Residence: Tamaqua; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865.
Robert
Wallace: Date of Enlistment: 8/29/1861; Age at Enlistment: 20;
Height: 5'7; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Sandy; Occupation: Sawyer;
Residence: Jeansville, Luzerne County; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Wounded
at Petersburg, 6/17/1864; Veteran; Born: 10/2/1844 in Nova Scotia, Canada; Died: 4/14/1902 at age 57; Buried: Forty Fort Cemetery, Forty Fort, PA.
Wilkes Barre Times, 4/14/1902
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Isaac
Barto: Date of Enlistment: 8/29/1861; Age at Enlistment: 28;
Height: 5'3; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Dark; Hair: Black; Occupation: Carpenter;
Residence: Danville; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Veteran; Born: 3/12/1832; Died: 3/15/1886 at age 54 in Three Rivers, Michigan; Buried: Riverside Cemetery, Three Rivers, MI.
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Jeremiah
Griffiths: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 22;
Height: 5'7 ¾; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Miner;
Residence: Minersville; Notes: Wounded at Antietam, 9/17/1862; Not on
Muster-Out Roll; Died: 10/2/1910.
Jno. Powell: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 21; Height: 5'6; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Bluish; Hair: Light;
Occupation: Miner; Born: Wales; Residence: Minersville; Notes: Wounded at 2nd Bull
Run, 8/29/1862; Wounded at Spotsylvania, 5/12/1864; Died of Wounds, 5/26/1864; Veteran. Buried initially at Arlington National Cemetery; body retrieved by father and brother and buried at First Congregational Church Cemetery, Minersville, PA.
From the Miners' Journal, July 2, 1864:
Death
of a Soldier.--John
Powell, Corporal of Company F, 48th Regt. P.V.V., who was severely wounded in
the battle of the Wilderness, died in Emory Hospital, Washington, D.C., on the
26th of May, and was buried at Arlington Cemetery, Va., on the 27th of May. The
deceased was a son of William and Mary Powell, of Delaware, near Minersville,
Pa.; was born in South Wales, and came to this country about 13 years ago. At the
breaking out of the Rebellion he enlisted in the 48th Regt., and served under
General Burnside through the North Carolina campaign. He was in a great many
battles and was wounded in the second battle of Bull Run.--Having recovered he
joined his Regiment again, and was in Knoxville when that place was besieged by
Longstreet. He re-enlisted as a veteran at Knoxville, Tenn., January 1864, for
three years. Our departed young friend was not 23 years of age when he died;
was a brave and faithful soldier, and highly respected by all who knew him.
Having heard of his death, his father and mother decided at once to have his
body brought home, if possible, and on the 24th of June it was brought home by
his father and brother. On the 26th a large number of the neighbors assembled
in order to pay the last tribute of respect to the dead soldier, and his
remains were interred with military honors in the cemetery of the Welsh
Congregation Church, Minersville.
David
T. Kreiger: Date of Enlistment into Co. F: 1/1/1864; Age at Enlistment: 23;
Height: 6'0; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Light; Occupation: Teamster;
Residence: Girardville; Transferred from Company D; See Company D; Veteran;
Died: 6/3/1915 in Reading, PA; Buried: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, PA.
The Reading Times, 6/5/1915
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Thomas
James: Date of Enlistment: 2/27/1864; Age at Enlistment: 21;
Height: 5'9; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Light; Occupation: Miner;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Wales; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Born:
1842; Died: December 24, 1891, in a coal mine collapse at age 48 or 49; Buried: First United Methodist Church Cemetery, Minersville,
PA.
Pottsville Republican, 12/25/1891
The Grave of Thomas James
Samuel
Dunkerley: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 19;
Height: 5'2; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Light; Occupation: Miner;
Residence: St. Clair; Born: 1845 in England; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Veteran;
Born: 1845; Died: 11/17/1914; Buried: Vine Street Cemetery, Hazleton, PA
.
Mauch Chunk Times, 11/18/1914
Wilkes Barre Semi-Weekly Record, 11/20/1914
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Edward
R. West: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 19 or
20; Height: 5'5; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Light; Occupation:
Engineer; Residence: Northampton; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Veteran;
Born: 12/23/1844; Died: 1/19/1922; Buried: Hays Cemetery, Easton, PA.
Corporal Edward R. West, Co. F, 48th Pennsylvania
(Hoptak Collection)
The Evening News, Harrisburg, PA, 1/20/1922
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John
Devlin: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 19;
Height: 5'3; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Sandy; Occupation: Farmer;
Residence: Minersville; Notes: Wounded severely in right arm and hand at Petersburg, 4/2/1865; Absent, Sick in
Hospital at Muster-Out; Born: 6/10/1846 in Minersville, PA; Died: 6/20/1918, in Highland Park, Michigan; Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan; brother of Simon Devlin, also of Company F, who was killed in action at Petersburg, June 1864.
Detroit Free Press, 6/22/1918
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Augustus
H. Whitman: Date of Enlistment: 2/22/1864; Age at Enlistment: 20;
Height: 5'5; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Tinsmith or
Teamster; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Minersville; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865;
Born: 1846; Died: 4/13/1923 in Minersville, PA; Buried: Charles Baber Cemetery,
Pottsville, PA.
Musicians
Jno. A. Lawrence: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 21;
Height: 5'9; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Light; Occupation: Engineer;
Residence: Minersville; Notes: Absent; Sick in Hospital at Muster-Out; Born:
1840 in Wales or England; Died: 9/19/1907 in Minersville; Buried: Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, PA.
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| John Lawrence [From The Story of the Forty-Eighth by Joseph Gould] |
Pottsville Republican and Evening Herald, 9/20/1907
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David
Fulton: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 17 or
18; Height: 5'3 ½; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Light; Occupation:
Laborer; Residence: Pottsville; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Veteran.
Privates
William
Achenbach: Date of Enlistment: 2/22/1864; Age at Enlistment: 18;
Height: 5'5; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted
in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill Co.; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes:
Isaac
Freeman Ackley: Date at Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 21; Height: 5'6; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Dark; Hair: Black;
Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Wyoming Co.; Notes: Absent; Sick in Hospital at
Muster-Out; Veteran; Born: 2/19/1842; Died: 3/6/1919; Buried: South Owego
Cemetery, South Owego, Tioga County, NY.
Elmira Star Gazette, 3/8/1919
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Dennis
Adams: Date of Enlistment: 2/20/1864; Age at Enlistment: 39;
Height: 5’4; Complexion: Florid; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark; Enlisted in
Pottsville; Born: Ireland; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Transferred
from Company C; Veteran; See Company C.
Richard
M. Adams: Date of Enlistment: 3/1/1864; Age at Enlistment: 22;
Height: 5'9; Complexion: Medium; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Teamster;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Berks Co.; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Born:
1840; Died: 12/14/1924 in Minersville, PA; Buried: Mount Peace Cemetery,
Minersville, PA.
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James
Andrews: Date of Enlistment: 2/28/1862; Age at Enlistment: 18;
Enlisted in Tamaqua; Date of Discharge: 3/3/1865; Notes: Discharged at End of
Term.
William
Ball:
Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 28; Height: 5'7 ½;
Complexion: Light; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Sandy; Occupation: Shoemaker; Residence: Minersville;
Born: England; Notes: Wounded at Pegram's Farm, 9/30/1864; Absent, Sick in
Hospital at Muster-Out; Veteran; Born: 1828; Died: 2/12/1892; Buried: First
United Methodist Church Cemetery, Minersville, PA.
Miners' Journal, 2/15/1892
The Grave of William Ball
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James
Bambrick: Date of Enlistment: 3/4/1864; Age at Enlistment: 21;
Height: 5'8 ½; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Brown; Occupation:
Engineer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill Co.; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865.
Patrick
Boran: Date of Enlistment: 4/5/1864; Age at Enlistment: 20 or 30;
Height: 5'6; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted
in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill Co.; Notes: Wounded at Petersburg, 6/17/1864;
Transferred to Veteran's Reserve Corps, 11/11/1864; Died: 8/24/1902 at age 58; Buried:
Saint Vincent de Paul Cemetery No. 1, Minersville, PA.
Pottsville Republican, 8/25/1902
The Grave of Patrick Boran
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Bernard
Boyle: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 19;
Height: 5'5 ½; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Dark Grey Hair: Black; Occupation:
Miner; Residence: Eckley; Notes: Deserted 12/12/1862
James Bradley: Date of Enlistment: 2/19/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 21; Height: 5'2 ½; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown;
Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Northumberland Co.; Notes: Killed
in Action at Cold Harbor, 6/3/1864; Born: 1842; Buried: First United Methodist
Church Cemetery, Minersville, PA.
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James Brennan, 1st: Date
of Enlistment: 1/1/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 23; Height: 5'6; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Light;
Occupation: Miner; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Ireland; Notes: Absent; Sick
at Muster-Out; Born: 1846; Died: 2/23/1931 in Glen Carbon, PA; Buried: Saint
Kieran’s Cemetery, Heckschersville, PA.
Pottsville Republican, 2/26/1931
The Grave of James Brennan
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James Brennan, 2nd: Date of Enlistment:
3/22/1864; Age at Enlistment: 19; Enlisted in Pottsville; Notes: Died of wounds
received at Spotsylvania; Date Unknown
Murtough Brennan: Date of Enlistment: 4/27/1864; Age at Enlistment: 39;
Height: 5'3; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Miner;
Residence: Pottsville; Born: Ireland; Notes: Transferred from Co. C; See
Company C; Wounded/Missing at 2nd Bull Run, 8/29/1864; Wounded at Petersburg, 6/17/1864; Transferred to Veteran Reserve
Corps, 11/11/1864; Veteran; Likely: Died: 1892; Buried: Shamokin Cemetery, Shamokin, PA.
Likely Grave of Murt Brennan
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William Brerton: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 21; Height: 5'8; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Sandy;
Occupation: Miner; Residence: Minersville; Notes: Died at Ft. Clark, Hatteras
Inlet, NC, 12/11/1861.
Thomas
Broderick: Date of Enlistment: 3/2/1865; Age at Enlistment: 18;
Height: 5'7 ¼; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Light; Occupation: Miner;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Carbon Co.; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Died:
4/28/1918 in Shenandoah, PA; Buried: Annunciation Blessed Virgin Mary Church Cemetery, Shenandoah, PA.
Pottsville Republican and Herald, 4/29/1918
Pottsville Republican, 4/29/1918
The Grave of Thomas Broderick
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Patrick Brown: Date of Enlistment: 8/28/1863; Age at
Enlistment: 38; Height: 5'6; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Black;
Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Ireland; Notes: Killed in a
railroad accident, 1/24/1864, Paris, Kentucky. From Gould, The Story of the Forty Eighth, pg. 156: "On the morning of the 25th we left by rail for Covington, Ky. At Paris, Patrick Brown, of Company F, was killed while the train was at a stop, the engine taking water; he was attempting to cross the track by crawling under the car when the train started and resulted as above stated."
James or William Burland: Date of Enlistment: 2/29/1864; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865
William
Bush:
Date of Enlistment: 3/8/1864; Age at Enlistment: 18; Height: 5'3; Complexion:
Fair; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Driver; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born:
Schuylkill Co.; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865.
James
Carr:
Date of Enlistment: 4/23/1864; Age at Enlistment: 21; Height: 5'4; Complexion:
Light; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Auburn; Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born:
Ireland; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes:
Anthony
Carroll: Date of Enlistment: 3/24/1864; Age at Enlistment: 35;
Height: 5'1; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Brown; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted
in Harrisburg; Born: Ireland; Notes: Wounded at Spotsylvania; Never returned to
regiment; Deserted from Hospital, 9/28/1864
John
Carroll: Date of Enlistment: 2/29/1864; Age at Enlistment: 28;
Height: 5'4 ½; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Brown; Occupation:
Shoemaker; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Ireland; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865
Patrick
P. Carroll: Date of Enlistment: 2/25/1864; Age at Enlistment: 19;
Height: 5'5 ½; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Black; Enlisted in
Minersville; Born: Ireland; Date of Discharge: 2/7/1865; Notes: Discharged to
Accept Commission in U.S.C.T.; Died: 8/30/1921 in Seattle, Washington.
William
Cavill: Date of Enlistment:8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 28;
Height: 5'10; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Sandy; Occupation:
Shoemaker; Residence: Philadelphia; Notes: Deserted, 2/1/1862.
John
Wallace Crawford: Date of Enlistment: 3/8/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 19; Height: 5'4 ¾; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Brown;
Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville ; Born: Ireland; Date of Discharge:
7/17/1865; Notes: Wounded at Spotsylvania; Wounded at Petersburg, 4/2/1865; The
“Poet Scout;” Born: 3/4/1847 in Ireland; Died: 2/28/1917 in Woodhaven, NY;
Buried: Cypress Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY.
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| John Crawford "The Poet Scout" |
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| John Crawford |
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| Post War Image of John Crawford, Center, with Samuel Beddal, Co.E 48th PA, on left, and Joseph Gould, Co. F, 48th PA on right. (Historical Society of Schuylkill County)  The Grave of John W. Crawford, the "Poet Scout" (findagrave.com) |
John
Austin Crawford: 2/27/1864; Age at Enlistment: 45; Height: 5'1
¼; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Tailor; Enlisted in
Pottsville; Born: Scotland; Date of Discharge: 6/27/1865; Notes: Reenlisted
from Co. K; See Company K; Wounded at Spotsylvania; Discharged on Surgeon's
Certificate; Veteran; Born: 1820 in Glasgow, Scotland; Died: 8/27/1871 in
Centralia, PA; Buried: First United Methodist Church Cemetery, Minersville, PA; father of John W. Crawford, also of Co. F
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Thomas
Curry: Date of Enlistment: 1/20/1862; Age at Enlistment: 21;
Height: 6'0; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Light; Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted
in Glen Carbon; Residence: Pottsville; Notes: Deserted, 3/10/1864.
Edward
Dailey: Date of Enlistment: 3/6/1865; Age at Enlistment: 36;
Height: 5'5; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Miner;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Ireland; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes:
Isaac
Dando: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 22;
Height: 5'4 ½; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Dark; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Miner’
Residence: Minersville; Date of Discharge from 48th PA: 10/20/1862; Notes: Discharged to
Serve in Artillery, Battery A, 5th U.S.; Born: 1840 in Wales; Died:
10/18/1874 at 33 or 34; Buried: Welsh Baptist Cemetery, Minersville, PA.
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David
Davis: Date of Enlistment: 3/7/1864 (or 3/8/1865 as stated in Gould); Age at Enlistment: 19;
Height: 5'0; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Miner; Enlisted
in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill Co.; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Died:
3/8/1915 in Dayton, Ohio; Buried: Dayton National Cemetery, Dayton, OH.
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Jno.
E. Davis: Date of Enlistment: 3/1/1864; Age at Enlistment: 31;
Height: 5'7 ½; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Miner;
Enlisted in Pottsville; B: Wales; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865.
Thomas
Davis: Date of Enlistment: 2/19/1864; Age at Enlistment: 18;
Height: 5'8; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Engineer; Enlisted
in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill Co.; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Died:
4/6/1926 at age 80 in Mahonoy City, PA.
Pottsville Republican, 4/7/1926
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William
H. Davis: Date of Enlistment: 3/2/1865; Age at Enlistment: 18;
Height: 5'2 ½; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Laborer;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill Co.; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865;
Died: 3/23/1914 in Somerdale, Ohio.
Elijah DeFrehn: Date of Enlistment: 2/24/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 31; Height: 5'4 ½; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Brown;
Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill Co.; Notes: Captured
at Pegram's Farm, 9/30/1864; Died 12/30/1864 in Salisbury Prison, North
Carolina.
James
Dempsey: Date of Enlistment: 1/26/1865; Age at Enlistment: 21;
Height: 5'7; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Sandy; Occupation: Laborer;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Ireland; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Wounded
at Petersburg, 4/2/1865; Notes: Died: 12/19/1905; Buried: St. Kieran's Cemetery, Heckscherville, PA.
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| James Dempsey [Courtesy of Mr. Thomas Dempsey] |
Miners' Journal, 12/21/1905
John
Devine: Date of Enlistment: 8/29/1861; Age at Enlistment: 34;
Height: 5'8; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Sandy; Occupation: Miner;
Residence: Audenreid; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Wounded and Captured
at 2nd Bull Run, 8/29/1862; Exchanged; Veteran.
Simon Devlin: Date of Enlistment: 3/7/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 26; Height: 5'10 ½; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown;
Occupation: Laborer; Residence: Minersville;
Notes: Killed in Action at Petersburg, 6/16/1864; Buried: City Point National Cemetery, Hopewell, VA; brother of Corporal John Devlin, also of Company F.
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Henry
Dillman: Date of Enlistment: 2/20/1864; Age at Enlistment: 19;
Height: 5'1 ½; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Farmer; Enlisted
in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill Co.; Notes: Wounded at Armstrong Farm,
Virginia, 5/31/1864; Discharged Due to Wound: 6/30/1864; Born: 5/4/1844 in Wadesville, PA; Married Mary O'Donnell of West Virginia in 1887; moved to Parkersburg, WV in 1890; Died: 7/28/1921 in Parkersburg, WV;
Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Parkersburg, Wood County, WV.
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Patrick Doolin: Date of Enlistment: 3/1/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 19; Height: 5'3; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown;
Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Ireland; Notes: Killed in
Action at Bethesda Church, 5/30/1864.
William
Doughton: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 21;
Height: 5'8; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Dark; Hair: Black; Occupation: Teamster;
Residence: Hazelton, Luzerne County; Wagoneer; Notes: Not on Muster-Out Roll.
William
E. Duffy: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 26;
Height: 5'5 ½; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Red; Occupation: Laborer;
Enlisted in Minersville; Residence: Frenchtown, Luzerne County; Date of
Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Wounded at Cold Harbor; Veteran; Died: 3/9/1905;
Buried: Cavalry Cemetery, San Diego, California.
The San Diego Sun, 3/10/1905
The Grave of William Duffy
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Jno.
Eddy:
Date of Enlistment: 3/9/1864; Age at Enlistment: 22; Height: 5'4 ½; Complexion:
Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Miner; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born:
Ireland; Notes: Wounded in the head at Spotsylvania, 5/12/1864; In Arrest at Alexandria at Muster Out.
James W. Evans: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 30; Height: 5'6; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Light;
Occupation: Miner; Residence: Minersville; Notes: Died in Hospital, 3/2/1864; Buried: U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
The Grave of James W. Evans
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"Diseases of the Respiratory Organs – Diphtheritic Inflammation of the Fauces, etc. -- Case 4. — Private James Evans, Co. F, 48th Pa.; age 25; was admitted Feb. 27, 1863, having been sick for four weeks. His tonsils were ragged and ulcerated and there were small patches of exudation in the throat; he swallowed with difficulty. He had an oppression in the right lung, mucous rales over both sides of the chest and an offensive, puruleut expectoration. On March 1 the dyspnoea increased and he became delirious and died next day. -- Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D. C. -- Cases at Various Hospitals." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume I. (3rd Medical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1888.
James
Falls: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 23;
Height: 5'8; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Dark Grey; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Lumberman;
Residence: Northumberland Co.; Notes: Not on Muster-Out Roll; Born: 1/20/1834;
Died: 1/20/1917 in Buck Creek; Buried: Clark Cemetery, Beech Creek, Clinton
County, PA.
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Jackson
or Jacob Forbes Ferree: Date of Enlistment: 3/1/1865; Age at
Enlistment: 43; Height: 5'7; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Light;
Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Residence: Dauphin Co.; Date of
Discharge: 7/17/1865; also served in Company A, 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, 8/30/1861-1/3/1863, discharged from 50th on surgeon's certificate; enlisted in 48th PA on 3/1/1865; Born:1822; Died: 11/4/1886; Buried: Cavalry United
Methodist Cemetery, Wiconisco, Dauphin County, PA.
Photograph purportedly of Jacob Forbes Ferree
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The Harrisburg Telegraph, 11/12/1886
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Henry
Ferrich/Farrich: Date of Enlistment: 2/22/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 19; Height: 5'7 ½; Complexion: Medium; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Brown;
Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Germany; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865;
Buried: German Protestant Cemetery, Mahonoy City, PA.
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Joseph Finley/Findley: Date of Enlistment:
2/19/1864; Age at Enlistment: 19; Height: 5'6; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Hazel;
Hair: Brown; Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Ireland; Notes: Captured at Pegram's Farm,
9/30/1864; Died in Salisbury Prison, 1/22/1865.
Albert
Fisher: Date of Enlistment: 1/24/1865; Age at Enlistment: 25;
Height: 5'7; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Boatman; Enlisted
in Easton; Born: Baden, Germany; Date of Discharge: 6/15/1865; Notes: Substitute;
Discharged on Surgeon's Certificate; Died: 6/1/1911; Buried: Charles Evans
Cemetery, Reading, PA.
The Reading Times, 6/3/1911
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Richard
Francis: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Date of Discharge:
7/1/1862; Notes:
William Fulton: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment 39 or 42; Height:5'9; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Sandy;
Occupation: Miner; Residence: Pottsville; Born: Scotland; Notes: Captured at
Pegram's Farm, 9/30/1864; Died in Salisbury Prison, 2/12/1865; Veteran.
Thomas
Garland: Date of Enlistment: 3/13/1864; Age at Enlistment: 16;
Height: 5'2 ½; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Laborer;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill County; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865;
Notes: Wounded at Pegram's Farm, 9/30/1864; ordained as a minister in 1869;
Born: 9/23/1847 in Llewellyn, the son of Irish immigrants; Died: 3/16/1925 in Harrisburg, PA; Buried: East Harrisburg
Cemetery, Harrisburg, PA.
Thomas Garland
Photo posted on civilwar.gratzpa.org from ancestry.com
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The Evening News (Harrisburg, PA), 3/17/1925
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Francis Gibson: Date
of Enlistment: 2/29/1864; Age at Enlistment: 22; Height: 5'4; Complexion: Dark;
Eyes: Brown; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Reading; Born: Berks
or Schuylkill Co.; Notes: Not on Muster-Out Roll.
Hugh
Glacken: Date of Enlistment: 1/20/1865; Age at Enlistment: 42;
Height: 5'7; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted
in Pottsville; Born: Ireland; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865.
William
T. Glenn: Date of Enlistment: 9/1/1861; Age at Enlistment: 18;
Height: 5'3; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Light; Occupation: Farmer;
Residence: Armstrong County; Date of Discharge: 9/30/1864; Notes: Discharged at
End of Term; Born: 11/1/1845; Died: 4/25/1875 at age 29; Buried: Saint Mark’s Lutheran
Church Cemetery, Eddyville, Armstrong County, PA.
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David
Griffiths: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 24;
Height: 5'8 1/2'; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Sandy; Occupation:
Miner; Residence: Providence, Luzerne County; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865;
Notes: Wounded at Fredericksburg, 12/13/1862; Veteran; Possibly Died: 1/26/1891; Buried: Port Carbon
Presbyterian Cemetery, Port Carbon, PA.
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| David Griffiths [From The Story of the Forty-Eighth by Joseph Gould] |
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Edward
Griffiths: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Date of Discharge:
10/20/1862
John
Griffiths: Date of Enlistment: 4/8/1864; Age at Enlistment: 30;
Height: 5'4 ½; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Miner; Enlisted
in Pottsville; Born: Wales; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865
Lemuel Griffiths: Date of Enlistment: 3/13/1865; Age at
Enlistment: 35; Height: 5'7 ½; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Brown;
Occupation: Miner; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Wales; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Born: 3/1/1831; Died: 9/3/1881 at age 50; Buried:
Mount Carmel Cemetery, Mount Carmel, PA.
Philadelphia Times, 9/4/1881
The Grave of Lemuel Griffiths
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John Haggerty: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 26; Height: 5'3; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Dark;
Occupation: Tailor; Residence: Hazelton; Notes: Killed in Action at 2nd Bull
Run, 8/29/1862.
Cyrus
Haines: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 19;
Height: 5'3; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Dark; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Laborer;
Residence: Minersville; Date of Discharge: 9/30/1864; Born: 10/14/1844; Died: 5/27/1937 at age 92; Notes: Wounded in the arm at Cold
Harbor; Discharged at End of Term; one of the last surviving members of the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry.
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| Cyrus Haines [Unknown Attribution]  Pottsville Republican, 6/22/1935  Pottsville Republican, 9/17/1936  Pottsville Republican, 5/28/1937  Pottsville Republican, 5/28/1937 |
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Philip Harman/Harnan: Date of Enlistment: 2/27/1864; Age at Enlistment: 27;
Height: 5’5 ½; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Dark; Enlisted in
Pottsville; Born: Ireland; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Died: 12/25/1904 in Dayton, Ohio; Buried: Dayton National Cemetery, Dayton, OH.
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James Hayes/Hays:
Date of Enlistment: 1/11/1865; Age at Enlistment: 22; Height: 6'0; Complexion:
Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Light; Occupation: Farmer; Enlisted in Ridgeway; Born:
Ireland; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Drafted; Born: either 1840 or 10/11/1841; Died:
3/18/1926 in Ridgway, PA; Buried: Saint Mary’s Cemetery, Saint Mary’s, Elk
County, PA.
The Pittsburgh Press, 3/21/1926
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Henry
Clay Heisler: Date of Enlistment in Co. F: 1/1/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 20; Height: 5'8; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Light;
Occupation: Student; Residence: Hazelton; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: enlisted and mustered into service as Musician, Co. D, 48th PA, 9/23/1861, at age 18; transferred to Co. F; Born:
1/6/1844 in Hazleton Mills, McKean County, PA; Died: 1/15/1922 in Pemberville,
Ohio; Buried: Pemberville Cemetery, Pemberville, OH.
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James
Hollenbach/Hollenback: Date of Enlistment: 1/11/1865; Age at Enlistment: 40;
Height: 5'11 ½; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Brown; Occupation:
Blacksmith; Enlisted in Ridgeway; Born: Luzerne Co.; Date of Discharge:
7/12/1865; Notes: Drafted; Discharged by General Order; Born: 7/19/1824; Died:
7/8/1903; Buried: Kylertown Presbyterian Cemetery, Kylertown, Clearfield
County, PA.
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Henry
Holsey: Date of Enlistment: 2/18/1864; Age at Enlistment: 23;
Height: 5'4; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Laborer;
Residence: Pottsville; Date of Discharge: 1/5/1865; Notes: Wounded at
Spotsylvania; Leg Amputated; Discharged on Surgeon's Certificate; Born:
1/14/1841; Died: 7/29/1907; Buried: Mount Carmel Cemetery, Mount Carmel, PA.
Pottsville Republican, 7/31/1907
The Mount Carmel Item, 9/30/1907
The Grave of Henry Holsey
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William
Holsey: Date of Enlistment: 1/1/1864; Age at Enlistment: 26;
Height: 5'6; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Laborer;
Residence: Minersville; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Wagoneer.
Jeremiah
Hoover: Date of Enlistment: 1/11/1865; Date of Discharge:
7/12/1865; Notes: Drafted; Discharged by General Order; Born: 8/22/1844; Died:
9/11/1912 in Munson, PA; Buried: Kylertown Presbyterian Cemetery, Kylertown,
Clearfield County, PA.
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John
Hosgood: Date of Enlistment: 2/17/1864; Age at Enlistment: 20;
Height: 5'6 ½; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Light; Occupation: Miner;
Residence: Pottsville; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Born: 1/29/1844;
Died: 2/16/1908; Buried: Mount Carmel Cemetery, Mount Carmel, PA.
Mount Carmel Item, 2/17/1908
The Daily News (Mount Carmel), 2/17/1908
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James
Hoult: Date of Enlistment: 3/5/1864; Age at Enlistment: 26;
Height: 5'4; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Miner;
Residence: Pottsville; Born: England; Date of Discharge: 5/20/1865; Notes: Wounded
at Cold Harbor; Discharged by General Order.
Hamilton
House: Date of Enlistment: 3/8/1864; Age at Enlistment: 18;
Height: 5'2; Complexion: Medium; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted
in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill Co.; Notes: Wounded at Petersburg, 7/1/1864;
Discharged, Date Unknown.
Sampson
Jenkins: Date of Enlistment: 2/23/1864; Age at Enlistment: 43;
Height: 5'3 ½; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Laborer;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: England; Date of Discharge: 4/14/1865; Notes: Transferred
to Veteran's Reserve Corps; Born: 1840; Died: 10/6/1885 at age 65; Buried:
Minersville Union Cemetery, Minersville, PA.
Pottsville Republican, 10/6/1885
Pottsville Republican, 10/7/1885
The Grave of Sampson Jenkins
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William Jenkins: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 21; Height: 5'7 or 5’4; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark;
Occupation: Mason or Miner; Residence: Minersville; Notes: Wounded at 2nd Bull
Run, 8/29/1862; Not on Muster-Out Roll; Died: 4/1/1865; Born: 1827; Buried:
Welsh Baptist Cemetery, Minersville, PA.
The Grave of William Jenkins
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William Johnson: Date
of Enlistment: 3/22/1864; Age at Enlistment: 42; Height: 4’10 ½; Complexion:
Medium; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Grey; Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville;
Born: Ireland; Notes: Transferred from Co. C; See Company C; Absent, Sick in
Hospital at Muster Out.
George
H. Jones: Date of Enlistment: 3/8/1864; Age at Enlistment: 17;
Height: 5'4 ½; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted
in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill Co.; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Wounded
at Cold Harbor; Died: 5/8 or 5/9/1908 in Philadelphia.
Pottsville Republican, 5/11/1908
William
T. Jones: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 22;
Height: 5'6; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Light; Occupation: Miner;
Residence: Minersville; Date of Discharge: 10/22/1862; Notes: Died: 12/28/1895.
John
Kemp:
Date of Enlistment: 8/29/1861; Age at Enlistment: 19; Height: 5'7; Complexion:
Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Miner; Residence: Stockton; Date of
Discharge: 11/22/1862; Notes: Discharged for Disability; later served with 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry, in 1865; wounded at Dinwiddie Court House, 3/31/1865, by gunshot wound to left shoulder; Born: 1846; Died:
1/9/1892 of "throat trouble" at age 45-46; Buried: Vine Street Cemetery, Hazleton, Luzerne County, PA.
The Grave of John Kemp
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Michael Kilrain: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 20; Height: 5'9; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Dark;
Occupation: Laborer; Residence: New Mines; Notes: Killed in Action at 2nd Bull
Run, 8/29/1862.
George
W. Kohler: Date of Enlistment: 2/25/1864; Age at Enlistment: 18;
Height: 5'5; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted
in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill Co.; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Born:
7/4/1846; Died: 1/17/1921 in Minersville, PA; Buried: Mount Peace Cemetery,
Minersville, PA.
The Grave of George W. Kohler
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William H. Kohler: Date of Enlistment:
3/1/1864; Age at Enlistment: 18; Height: 5'2 ½; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Hazel;
Hair: Dark; Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill Co.;
Notes: Captured at Pegram's Farm, 9/30/1864; Died in Salisbury Prison.
John
Kohn:
Date of Enlistment: 1/11/1865; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Drafted.
Jacob
Kuhns: Date of Enlistment: 1/1/1864; Age at Enlistment: 22;
Height: 5'10; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Light; Occupation: Laborer;
Residence: Berks County; Notes: Wounded at Cold Harbor; Deserted 7/9/1864 from
hospital in Philadelphia.
Michael Lavelle: Date
of Enlistment: 4/20/1864; Age at Enlistment: 19; Height: 5'3 ½; Complexion:
Light; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born:
Ireland; Notes: MIA Petersburg; Absent, Sick at Muster-Out.
John
Lawless: Date of Enlistment: 2/29/1864; Age at Enlistment: 32;
Height: 5'8; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Laborer;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Ireland; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes:
Cornelius
Leary: Date of Enlistment: 3/13/1864; Age at Enlistment: 28;
Height: 5'6 ¼; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Laborer;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Ireland; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Died:
3/11/1895 in Erie, PA.
Isaac Lewis: Date of Enlistment: 3/8/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 22; Height: 5'11; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown;
Occupation: Miner; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Wales; Notes: Killed in Action
at Petersburg 6/17/1864; Buried: City Point National Cemetery, Hopewell, VA.
Thomas
Lewis: Date of Enlistment: 3/22/1864; Age at Enlistment: 18;
Height: 5'2 ½; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark; Occupation:
Druggist; Residence: Pottsville; Born: Wales; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Died: April 1895;
Pottsville Republican, 4/30/1895
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| From the Scranton Tribune, April 30,1895 |
Peter Litchfield: Date of Enlistment: 3/1/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 30; Height: 5'4 ½; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Brown;
Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Ireland; Notes: Died
4/9/1864, Annapolis, Maryland; Buried: First United Methodist Church Cemetery,
Minersville, PA.
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Richard
Littlehales: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 23; Height: 5'9; Complexion: Light; Eyes; Blue; Hair: Sandy;
Occupation: Miner; Residence: New Castle; Notes: MIA 2nd Bull Run, 8/29/1862;
Deserted from Hospital ?.
Thomas
Lloyd: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 23;
Height: 5'8; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Dark; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Miner;
Residence: Minersville; Notes: Wounded at 2nd Bull Run; Not on Muster-Out Roll;
Born: 12/3/1838 in Wales; Died: 3/8/1915 in Scranton, PA; Buried: First Congregational
Church Cemetery, Minersville, PA.
The Times Tribune (Scranton), 3/8/1915
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John
Lyng:
Date of Enlistment: 8/27/1863; Age at Enlistment: 37; Height: 5'9; Complexion:
Sandy; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Miner; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born:
Ireland; Notes: Deserted 3/10/1864.
Thomas
Lyshon: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 23;
Height: 5'4; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Sandy; Occupation: Miner;
Residence: Minersville; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Wounded at 2nd
Bull Run; Veteran
Henry McCann: Date of Enlistment: 3/8/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 19; Height: 5'6; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark;
Occupation: Laborer; From Minersville, Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill Co.; Notes: Killed
in Action at Armstrong Farm, 5/31/1864.; Buried: Richmond National Cemetery.
David McElvie: Date of Enlistment: 3/1/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 20; Height: 5'3; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown;
Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: British-America; Notes: Killed
in Action at Petersburg, 4/2/1865.
John
McGee: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/186; Age at Enlistment: 19;
Height: 5'3; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Dark; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Engineer;
Residence: Audenreid; Notes: Deserted
while on veteran furlough
John McVeigh: Date of Enlistment: 3/8/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 19; Height: 5'5 ½; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown;
Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill Co.; Date of
Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Died 8/28/1885 age about 40, in coal mine collapse in Heckscherville, PA.
Pottsville Republican, 8/29/1885
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George W. Manders: Date
of Enlistment: 2/24/1864; Age at Enlistment: 43; Height: 5'5 ½; Complexion:
Dark; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Miner; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born:
England; Notes: Absent; Sick in Hospital at Muster-Out
Israel Manning: Date of Enlistment: 2/24/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 31; Height: 5'6; Complexion: Medium; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown; Occupation:
Miner; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill Co.; Notes: Wounded at the
Wilderness, 5/6/1864; Died of Wounds 5/8/1864.
James
W. Manning: Date of Enlistment: 2/29/1864; Age at Enlistment: 26;
Height: 5'8; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Engineer; Enlisted
in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill Co.; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865
David Miller: Date of Enlistment: 9/12/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 22; Height: 5'2 ½; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Light;
Occupation: Miner; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Scotland; Notes: Wounded at
Pegram's Farm; Died in Annapolis, 11/6/1864; Possibly Buried Presbyterian Cemetery, Pottsville, PA.
John
Miller: Date of Enlistment: 9/12/1864; Age at Enlistment: 26;
Height: 5'4 ½; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Light; Occupation: Miner;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Scotland; Date of Discharge: 6/7/1865; Notes: Discharged
by General Order; Died: 1909.
Michael
Mohan: Date of Enlistment: 3/9/1864; Age at Enlistment: 23;
Height: 5'4 ½; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Miner;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Ireland; Notes: Transferred to Co. C, 3/9/1864;
See Company C; (Mortally Wounded at Spotsylvania, 5/12/1864; Died of Wounds Received; Buried: Arlington National Cemetery, Section 27, Grave No. 199)
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William
Moore/Moon: Date of Enlistment: 2/17/1864; Age at Enlistment: 21;
Height: 5'3; Complexion: Medium; Occupation: Hazel; Hair: Brown; Occupation:
Miner; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born : Wales; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865;
Notes: Captured 9/30/1864; Exchanged; Died: 1907
John Morrissey: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 22; Height: 5'2; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Dark;
Occupation: Laborer; Residence: Minersville; Notes: Killed in Action at
Spotsylvania, 5/12/1864; Veteran
Prior to the Battle of Spotsylvania, Sergeant William Wells, also of Company F, remembered that just before the charge across the swampy ground, John Morrisey approached him and bade him goodbye. Asked why he said that, Morrisey replied that "I shall be killed today." "I chided him, and tried to cheer him up," said Wells, "then suggested that he remain out of the fight. . . .He indignantly refused, and said, 'I have never yet shirked my duty, and will not do it now. After I am dead, write to my sister, Mary, and tell her I died facing the enemy.'" Wells remembered that as soon as the assault began he saw Morrisey shot through the forehead and instantly killed. Later, Wells and a few comrades "dug a hole with the bayonet; wrapped [Morrisey] in his blanket and buried him. Then, upon a piece of cracker-box, we wrote, with a charred stick, his name, company and regiment." One year later, Wells was himself wounded outside Petersburg and was taken to a hospital in Chestnut Hill, PA. As a post-script and as a strange coincidence, while there Wells was visited by Mary Morrisey who was presumably a nurse at that hospital. "[F]inding my name among the new arrivals," said Wells, Mary "visited me, and I delivered [her brother's] dying message to her. She was a poor servant girl in the City of Philadelphia," related Wells, "but I shall never forget her distress." [From Gould, Joseph, The Story of the Forty-Eighth]
John J. Morrison: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment:
19; Height: 5'3; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Dark; Occupation:
Laborer; Residence: Minersville; Notes: Mortally Wounded at 2nd Bull
Run; Died 10/23/1862 of wounds received at 2nd Bull Run; Buried: U.S Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Patrick
Mullen: Date of Enlistment: 4/11/1864; Age at Enlistment: 18;
Height: 5'1 ½; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Black; Occupation: Laborer;
Residence: Port Carbon; Born: Ireland; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Died: 12/24/1908.
James Murphy: Date
of Enlistment: 2/24/1864; Age at Enlistment: 19; Height: 5'3 ½; Complexion:
Fair; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born:
Ireland; Notes: Absent; Sick in Hospital at Muster-Out.
Thomas Murphy: Date
of Enlistment: 2/29/1864; Age at Enlistment: 27; Height: 5'7 ½; Complexion:
Dark; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Miner; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born:
Ireland ; Notes: Absent; Sick in Hospital
at Muster-Out.
William
Murphy, I: Date of Enlistment: 3/24/1864; Age at Enlistment: 19;
Height: 5'7 ½; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Laborer;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Residence: Schuylkill County; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865;
Notes: Born: 1844; Died: 1/30/1911 in Phoenix Park, PA; Buried: Saint Vincent
de Paul Cemetery No. 1, Minersville, PA.
William
Murphy, II: Date of Enlistment: 1/25/1865; Age at Enlistment: 19;
Height: 5'5 ½; Complexion: Medium; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Laborer;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Died: 9/5/1915 at
the National Soldiers’ Home, Virginia; Buried: Hampton National Cemetery,
Hampton, VA.
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Morgan
P. Owens: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 21;
Height: 5'5 ¼; Complexion: Light; Eyes:
Grey; Hair: Sandy; Occupation: Engineer; Residence: Minersville; Date of
Discharge: 10/20/1862; Buried: First Congregational Church Cemetery, Minersville, PA.
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James
Paully: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 22;
Height: 5'7 ½; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Laborer;
Residence: Philadelphia; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Wounded at
Antietam, 9/17/1862; Veteran.
William
Pfeiffer: Date of Enlistment: 1/24/1865; Age at Enlistment: 29;
Height: 5'5; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown; Occupation:
Stonecutter; Enlisted in Easton; Born: Germany; Date of Discharge: 6/13/1865;
Notes: Substitute; Discharged by General Orders.
John
Phillips: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 28;
Height: 6'1 ½; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Miner;
Residence: Pottsville; Date of Discharge: 9/30/1864; Notes: Discharged at End
of Term.
Hugh
Pickford: Date of Enlistment: 1/1/1864; Age at Enlistment: 33;
Height: 5'3 ¼; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Sandy; Occupation: Miner; Enlisted
in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill Co.; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Transferred
from Co. C; Veteran; Died: 9/14/1888; Findagrave entry claims Burial at Moshassuck Cemetery, Central Falls, Rhode Island.
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Edward G. Pugh: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 23; Height: 5'6; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Dark;
Occupation: Superintendent; Residence: Minersville; Notes: Killed in Action at
Cold Harbor , 6/3/1864.
Patrick
Purcell: Notes: Joined regiment while on the march; No papers ever
received; Absent, Sick in hospital at muster-out
Frank Queeny: Date of Enlistment: 2/27/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 20; Height: 5'3 ¾; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown;
Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: England; Notes: Died of
Dropsy, 8/21/1864; Buried: City Point National Cemetery, Hopewell, VA.
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Peter Quinn: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 27; Height: 5'5; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Black; Hair: Black;
Occupation: Laborer; Residence: Baltimore; Notes: Supposed to have been killed
at 2nd Bull Run, 8/29/1862
George
Ramer: Date of Enlistment: 2/17/1864; Age at Enlistment: 18;
Height: 5'2 ½; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Laborer;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Germany; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865
John
J. Reese: Date of Enlistment: 2/25/1864; Age at Enlistment: 20;
Height: 5'6; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Miner;
Residence: Minersville; Date of Discharge: 8/25/1864; Notes: Wounded at
Spotsylvania; arm amputated; Discharged; May have died on May 24, 1882, at age 36-37; Buried: Odd Fellows’ Cemetery,
Shenandoah Heights, PA.
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Edward
J. Robson: Date of Enlistment: 2/22/1864; Age at Enlistment: 41;
Height: 5'5; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Carpenter;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: England; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Born:
8/11/1820; Died: 3/16/1893; Buried: Greenwood Cemetery, Tower City, PA.
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Michael
Ryan:
Date of Enlistment: 3/9/1864; Age at Enlistment: 18; Height: 5'6; Complexion:
Dark; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill Co.; Date of
Discharge: 7/17/1865; Born: 1845; Died:
8/28/1923 in Philadelphia, PA; Buried: Holy Cross Cemetery, Yeadon, PA.
Philadelphia Inquirer, August 29, 1923
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Timothy
Schaeffer: Date of Enlistment: 3/15/1864; Age at Enlistment: 17;
Height: 5'2 ½; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Light; Occupation: Laborer;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill Co.; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865;
Died: 1/10/1913; Buried: Dayton National Cemetery, Dayton, OH.
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Elias
Shell: Date of Enlistment: 3/1/1865; Age at Enlistment: 20;
Height: 5'4 ¾; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Light; Occupation: Laborer;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Dauphin Co.; Date of Discharge: 6/15/1865; Notes:
Discharged by General Order; Born: 1844; Died: 1/30/1897 at age 52 due to injuries sustained in a coal mine accident; Buried: Greenwood
Cemetery, Tower City, PA
Pottsville Republican, 1/15/1897
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George
Sheridan: Date of Enlistment: 3/26/1864;Age a Enlistment: 19;
Height: 5'4; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Laborer;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Canada; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865
Edward L. Shissler: Date of Enlistment: 2/22/1864; Age at Enlistment: 18;
Height: 5'6; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Shoemaker;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill Co.; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865;
Notes: Wounded in leg at Petersburg, 6/17/1864; Wounded at Petersburg, 4/2/1865; Born:
1848 in Port Carbon, PA; Died: 7/5/1904 at age 55 or 56 in Minersville; Buried: Minersville Union Cemetery,
Minersville, PA.
Miners' Journal, 7/6/1904
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Jeremiah
Skouten: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 19;
Height: 5'5 ½; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Farmer;
Residence: Bradford Co.; Date of Discharge: 11/17/1862; Notes: Discharged for
Disability
William Smith: Date of Enlistment: 3/4/1864; Age: 25; Height: 5'6; Complexion: Light;
Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born:
Prussia; Notes: Wounded at Spotsylvania, but "did not go to the
rear;" Killed in Action at Cold Harbor, 6/3/1864
George
W. Stellwagon: Date of Enlistment: 1/1/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 27; Height: 6'0; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Black;
Occupation: Millwright; Residence: Philadelphia County; Date of Discharge:
7/17/1865; Notes: Transferred from Co. D; See Company D; Veteran; Born: 1837; Died: 9/20/1898, in Dayton, Ohio; Buried: Dayton National Cemetery,
Dayton, OH.
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Horace Straub: Date of Enlistment: 3/22/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 18; Height: 5'4; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Brown;
Occupation: Clerk; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Montour Co.; Notes: Killed in
Action at Petersburg, 6/17/1864; Born: 1845; Buried: First United Methodist
Church Cemetery, Minersville, PA
From the Miners' Journal, July 9, 1864:
Obituary--Straub--Killed
in action on the 17th of June, 1864, in Virginia, Horace F. Straub, of
Minersville, a member of Co. F, 48th Reg. P.V.V.
The following preamble and
resolutions were adopted at a regular meeting of the United Division No. 79 S.
of T., Minersville, held on the evening of July 7, 1864.
Whereas Brother Horace F. Straub has
ever been since his connection with us, a true Son of Temperance, and,
Whereas It is but proper that we
should publicly express our sentiments with regard to our late brother,
therefore,
Resolved, That we have heard with
sincere regret that brother Horace F. Straub was killed in action in Virginia,
on the 17th of June 1864, while gallantly advancing with his comrades upon the
enemy's works.
Resolved, That while we grieve and
lament the untimely death of our late Brother, we console ourselves with the
great thought that he died as became a Son of Temperance and a valiant soldier
of his country, with his face to the foe; that he fell in a holy and noble
cause--the cause of his country and his God.
Resolved, That we feel that we have
indeed lost a friend and Brother and by his death we are again admonished that
life is brief and that whatever our hands find to do for the good of man should
be done quickly for the night cometh wherein no man can work.
Resolved, That we cordially
sympathize with the family and friends of our late Brother in this, their
painful affliction.
Resolved, That a copy of these
resolutions be presented to the mother of our deceased Brother, and that they
be also published in the Miners' Journal.
Luther S. Kauffman--
Wm. P. Daniel-------Committee
Wm. P. Daniel-------Committee
James Harris---------
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William
Sweeney: Date of Enlistment: 2/23/1864; Age at Enlistment: 42;
Height: 5’3 ½; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark; Enlisted in
Pottsville; Born: Ireland; Notes: Transferred to Company C, 2/23/1864; See
Company C; Discharged by General Court Martial, Sentenced to Five Years’ Imprisonment.
Stephen
Taggart: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 24;
Height: 5'11; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Dark; Occupation:
Superintendent; Residence: Yorktown, Carbon County, PA; Notes: Wounded at 2nd
Bull Run, 8/29/1862; Not on Muster-Out Roll; Died: 8/4/1916 in Philadelphia, PA
David F. Thiel: Date of Enlistment: 2/24/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 17; Height: 5'6 ¼; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown;
Occupation: Shoemaker; Born: Northumberland Co.; Notes: Killed in Action at the
Wilderness, 5/6/1864; Likely Buried at Fredericksburg National Cemetery, Fredericksburg, VA.
Evan
W. Thomas: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 25 or
35; Height: 5'4; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Clerk;
Residence: Minersville; Date of Discharge: 9/30/1864; Notes: Discharged at End
of Term; Died: 1/20/1907 or 1902.
Thomas J. Thomas: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 20; Height: 5'5; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Red;
Occupation: Miner; Residence: Minersville;
Notes: Died of Typhoid Fever, 1/22/1864; Buried: Knoxville National Cemetery,
Knoxville, TN
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Thomas M. Thomas: Date
of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 32; Height: 5'5; Complexion: Dark;
Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Miner; Residence: Minersville; Notes: Absent;
Sick in Hospital at Muster-Out
Charles Treisbach: Date of Enlistment:
8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 29; Height: 5'7; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Hazel;
Hair: Sandy; Occupation: Engineer; Residence: Tamaqua; Notes: Died 7/1/1862;
Buried: New Bern National Cemetery, New Bern, NC, Section 7, Grave No. 1170.
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Edward
H. Turner: Date of Enlistment: 2/15/1864; Age at Enlistment: 20;
Height: 5'4 ½; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Light; Occupation:
Shoemaker; Enlisted in Philadelphia; Born: Minersville; Date of Discharge:
6/27/1865; Notes: Discharged on Surgeon's Certificate; Died: 4/11/1922 in
Youngstown, OH; Buried: Belmont Park Cemetery, Liberty Township, Ohio.
John
Wallace: Date of Enlistment: 3/13/1865; Age at Enlistment: 18;
Height: 5'5 ½; Complexion: Medium; Eyes: Brown; Hair: Dark; Occupation:
Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Residence: Carbon Co.; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865;
Notes:
Robert
Wallace: Date of
Enlistment: 3/9/1864; Age at Enlistment: 19; Height: 5'7; Complexion: Light;
Eyes: Grey; Hair: Sandy; Occupation: Sawyer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Residence:
Luzerne Co.; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Notes: Born: 10/2/1844 in Nova Scotia; Died: 4/14/1902 at age 57; Buried: Forty Fort Cemetery, Forty Fort, PA.
The Times Leader (Wilkes Barre, PA), April 15, 1902
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Thomas
Wardrop: Date of Enlistment: 3/13/1865; Age at Enlistment: 18;
Height: 5'7; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Light; Occupation: Laborer;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Scotland; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865; Born:
4/29/1846 in Scotland; Died: 8/10/1933 at age 87; Buried: Mount Carmel Cemetery, Mount Carmel, PA.
The Record American, August 11, 1933
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Michael Welsh: Date of Enlistment: 4/5/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 19; Height: 5'5 ½; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown;
Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill Co.; Notes: Born:
1845; Captured 9/30/1864 at Pegram's Farm; Died in Salisbury Prison, 2/6/1865;
Buried: Salisbury National Cemetery, Salisbury, NC.
Andrew Wesner: Date of Enlistment: 4/14/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 18; Height: 5'6 ¼; Complexion: Medium; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Brown;
Occupation: Laborer; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Schuylkill County; Notes: Died
6/17/1864
Benjamin
F. Wiest: Date of Enlistment: 2/19/1865; Age at Enlistment: 18;
Height: 5'1 ½; Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Dark; Occupation: Servant;
Enlisted in Pottsville; Notes: Wounded at Petersburg, 6/18/1864; Discharged by
Surgeon's Certificate, Date Unknown; Died: 5/4/1926 in Bridgewater, NJ
Richard Williams: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 26; Height: 5'9 ½; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Sandy;
Occupation: Miner; Residence: Minersville; Notes: Killed in Action at
Spotsylvania, 5/12/1864; Veteran; Likely buried at Fredericksburg National Cemetery.
Thomas
J. Williams: Date of Enlistment: 2/25/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 30; Height: 5'10; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Dark;
Occupation: Miner; Enlisted in Pottsville; Born: Wales; Date of Discharge: 7/17/1865;
Notes: Died: 6/23/1882
John
M. Wilson: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at Enlistment: 43;
Height: 5'7 ½; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Hazel; Hair: Grey; Occupation:
Carpenter; Residence: Philadelphia County; Date of Discharge: 10/20/1862;
Notes: Died: 7/19/1882
Thomas
Wilson: Notes: Deserted, 3/10/1864; No Further Records Available
Michael Wilson: Date of Enlistment: 2/25/1864; Age at
Enlistment: 21; Height: 5'7l Complexion: Fair; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Red;
Occupation: Miner; Residence: Minersville; Born: England; Notes: Died of
"nostalgia, or home-sickness," or of chronic diarrhea, 3/24/1864, at
Annapolis, MD; Buried: First United Methodist Church Cemetery, Minersville, PA.
According to regimental historian Joseph Gould (who also served in Company F), Private Wilson died from "Nostalgia--home sicknesses." As Gould related, Wilson's "was a very sad case." He began to think of home; of what he left behind and what may lie ahead. According to Gould, "His comrades endeavored to divert his mind and thoughts in another channel, but were not successful and he just pined away from a big, strong, healthy boy, and died in less than a month from the time he left home." (Gould, The Story of the Forty-Eighth)
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Daniel
Wolff: Date of Enlistment: 10/1/1861; Date of Discharge:
10/20/1862
Robert Wood: Date of Enlistment: 10/1/1861; Age at Enlistment: 22; Height: 5'4; Complexion:
Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Sandy; Occupation: Peddler; Residence: Danville;
Notes: Not on Muster-Out Roll; Born: 7/8/1839 in Pottsville; Died: 1/10/1868 at
age 29 in Danville, Montour County, PA; Buried: Episcopal Cemetery, Danville,
PA.
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| Robert Wood [From www.findagrave.com] |
From the Miners' Journal, January 25, 1868:
Death of a Soldier.--Robert Wood, late of the
Forty-eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, died on the 10th inst., at the residence of
his mother in Danville, Pa., of disease contracted in the army, whilst fighting
for the life of the nation. His remains were interred on the 12th, in the
Episcopal Cemetery of that place, with military honors.
The Grave of Robert Wood
(findagrave.com)
(findagrave.com)
Lewis Woods: Date of Enlistment: 8/19/1861; Age at
Enlistment: 27; Height: 6'0; Complexion: Light; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Sandy;
Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Crawford Co.; Notes: Killed in Action at
Spotsylvania, 5/12/1864; Veteran
The Grave of Lewis Woods
(Hoptak Photograph)
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William
Brerton: Died at Ft. Clark, Hatteras Inlet, NC, 12/11/1861
Charles Treisbach: Died 7/1/1862
John Haggerty: Killed in Action at 2nd Bull Run, 8/29/1862
Michael Kilrain: Killed in Action at 2nd Bull Run, 8/29/1862
Peter Quinn: Supposed to have been killed at 2nd Bull Run, 8/29/1862
William Hopkins: Mortally Wounded at 2nd Bull Run; Died: 8/31/1862 of wounds
Henry Jenkins: Mortally Wounded at 2nd Bull Run, 8/29/1862; died in Georgetown, DC, 9/15/1862
John J. Morrison: Mortally Wounded at 2nd Bull Run; Died 10/23/1862
Thomas J. Thomas: Died of Typhoid Fever, 1/22/1864
Patrick Brown: Killed in a railroad accident, 1/24/1864, Paris, Kentucky
James W. Evans: Died in Hospital, 3/2/1864
Michael Wilson: Died of "nostalgia, or home-sickness," or of chronic diarrhea, 3/24/64 at Annapolis.
Peter Litchfield: Died 4/9/1864, Annapolis, Maryland
David F. Thiel: Killed in Action at the Wilderness, 5/6/1864
Israel Manning: Wounded at the Wilderness, 5/6/1864; Died of Wounds 5/8/1864
James Brennan: Died of wounds received at Spotsylvania; Date Unknown
John Morrissey: Killed in Action at Spotsylvania, 5/12/1864
Richard Williams: Killed in Action at Spotsylvania, 5/12/1864
Lewis Woods: Killed in Action at Spotsylvania, 5/12/1864
Jno. Powell: Wounded at Spotsylvania, 5/12/1864; Died of Wounds
Patrick Doolin: Killed in Action at Bethesda Church, 5/30/1864
Henry McCann: Killed in Action at Armstrong Farm, 5/31/1864
James Bradley: Killed in Action at Cold Harbor, 6/3/1864
Edward G. Pugh: Killed in Action at Cold Harbor , 6/3/1864
William Smith: Killed in Action at Cold Harbor, 6/3/1864
Simon Devlin: Killed in Action at Petersburg, 6/16/1864
Isaac Lewis: Killed in Action at Petersburg 6/17/1864
Horace Straub: Killed in Action at Petersburg, 6/17/1864
Andrew Wesner: Died 6/17/1864
Frank Queeny: Died of Dropsy, 8/21/1864
William H. Kohler: Captured at Pegram's Farm, 9/30/1864; Died in Salisbury Prison
David Miller: Wounded at Pegram's Farm; Died in Annapolis, 11/6/1864
Elijah DeFrehn: Captured at Pegram's Farm, 9/30/1864; Died 12/30/1864 in Salisbury Prison, NC
Joseph Finley/Findley: Captured at Pegram's Farm, 9/30/1864; Died in Salisbury Prison, 1/22/1865
Michael Welsh: Captured 9/30/1864 at Pegram's Farm; Died in Salisbury Prison, 2/6/1865
William Fulton: Captured at Pegram's Farm, 9/30/1864; Died in Salisbury Prison, 2/12/1865
William Jenkins: Died: 4/1/1865
David McElvie: Killed in Action at Petersburg, 4/2/1865
Charles Treisbach: Died 7/1/1862
John Haggerty: Killed in Action at 2nd Bull Run, 8/29/1862
Michael Kilrain: Killed in Action at 2nd Bull Run, 8/29/1862
Peter Quinn: Supposed to have been killed at 2nd Bull Run, 8/29/1862
William Hopkins: Mortally Wounded at 2nd Bull Run; Died: 8/31/1862 of wounds
Henry Jenkins: Mortally Wounded at 2nd Bull Run, 8/29/1862; died in Georgetown, DC, 9/15/1862
John J. Morrison: Mortally Wounded at 2nd Bull Run; Died 10/23/1862
Thomas J. Thomas: Died of Typhoid Fever, 1/22/1864
Patrick Brown: Killed in a railroad accident, 1/24/1864, Paris, Kentucky
James W. Evans: Died in Hospital, 3/2/1864
Michael Wilson: Died of "nostalgia, or home-sickness," or of chronic diarrhea, 3/24/64 at Annapolis.
Peter Litchfield: Died 4/9/1864, Annapolis, Maryland
David F. Thiel: Killed in Action at the Wilderness, 5/6/1864
Israel Manning: Wounded at the Wilderness, 5/6/1864; Died of Wounds 5/8/1864
James Brennan: Died of wounds received at Spotsylvania; Date Unknown
John Morrissey: Killed in Action at Spotsylvania, 5/12/1864
Richard Williams: Killed in Action at Spotsylvania, 5/12/1864
Lewis Woods: Killed in Action at Spotsylvania, 5/12/1864
Jno. Powell: Wounded at Spotsylvania, 5/12/1864; Died of Wounds
Patrick Doolin: Killed in Action at Bethesda Church, 5/30/1864
Henry McCann: Killed in Action at Armstrong Farm, 5/31/1864
James Bradley: Killed in Action at Cold Harbor, 6/3/1864
Edward G. Pugh: Killed in Action at Cold Harbor , 6/3/1864
William Smith: Killed in Action at Cold Harbor, 6/3/1864
Simon Devlin: Killed in Action at Petersburg, 6/16/1864
Isaac Lewis: Killed in Action at Petersburg 6/17/1864
Horace Straub: Killed in Action at Petersburg, 6/17/1864
Andrew Wesner: Died 6/17/1864
Frank Queeny: Died of Dropsy, 8/21/1864
William H. Kohler: Captured at Pegram's Farm, 9/30/1864; Died in Salisbury Prison
David Miller: Wounded at Pegram's Farm; Died in Annapolis, 11/6/1864
Elijah DeFrehn: Captured at Pegram's Farm, 9/30/1864; Died 12/30/1864 in Salisbury Prison, NC
Joseph Finley/Findley: Captured at Pegram's Farm, 9/30/1864; Died in Salisbury Prison, 1/22/1865
Michael Welsh: Captured 9/30/1864 at Pegram's Farm; Died in Salisbury Prison, 2/6/1865
William Fulton: Captured at Pegram's Farm, 9/30/1864; Died in Salisbury Prison, 2/12/1865
William Jenkins: Died: 4/1/1865
David McElvie: Killed in Action at Petersburg, 4/2/1865
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Company F Casualties
(By Joe Gould)
Mount Carmel Item, 8/14/1916
"A sad part of any war is the casualty
list, without which no real war is possible. The roll of casualties of the
company I which I served in the gallant 48th, was a long one. The
roll of the Co. including the re-enlistment, was 85. Out of this total, 74 were
on the casualty list. Many fine young fellows, of my personal acquaintance,
gave up their lives, others wounded, quite a few contracted disease from which
they never recovered. As I write many of their faces seem to look up to mine
and ask recognition.
My first soldier’s funeral was that
of Bill Brereton, whom we buried at Hatteras, N.C. Then Charley Tresibach, at
Newbern, N.C. Now came the active campaigning, beginning with Bull Run. Harry
Jenkins, Bill Hopkins, and Johnny Morrison were killed there, little Mick
Wilson died from home-sickness. If you ever see any one complaining of home-sickness,
don’t make light of it as it is a real sickness and nothing will give relief,
except home or mother. Pat Brown was killed at Paris, Ky. Dan Fenstermacher
died at Washington, D.C. David Thiel, John Morrissey, Lew Woods, Jno. Powell,
Israel Manning and Andrew Wessner were killed at Spotsylvania. C.H. Doolin and
Harry McCann were killed at the crossing of the Pamunkey river. Edward Pugh
with only a few more weeks to serve, not having re-enlisted, was killed at
Shady Grove. Bill Smith a German, wounded a few days before at Spotsylvania,
but would not go to the rear, was also killed here. Horace F. Straub, a dear
little round-faced boy, only 17, and pretty as a school girl, was killed in our
first engagement at Petersburg. Here also fell Ike Lewis, John Bradley, Dave
McElvie and Simon Devlin.
Wm. Fulton, a brother of Sandy
Fulton, deceased of Shamokin, and Elijah DeFrehn, died in Salisbury, N.C.
prison, having been taken prisoner at the Pegram’s Farm fight. Jacob Wagner
died in Pottsville, Frank Queen and Jim Evans died at Washington; Pete
Litchfield died at Annapolis, Md., of smallpox. Joseph Finley, captured at
Pegram’s Farm, died in Salisbury prison and Wm Kohler died there. John
Haggerty, Mike Kilrain and Pete Quinn, killed at Bull Run. Mike Welsh, another
victim of the cruelty practiced at Salisbury, died there. Tommy Thomas died at
Knoxville, Tenn.
Our company had seven members
captured at Pegram’s Farm, and only two, Bob Paden and Billy Moore returned.
What a list from one company, of
this veteran regiment, every one of them with a mother, mourning for the boy who
never returned."
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