62d Pennsylvania Volunteers
Company D: Finlay Cadets (Armstrong County)
62d Pennsylvania VolunteersCompany D: Finlay Cadets (Armstrong County) |
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Company Origins |
Company D was recruited by Captain William C. Beck in Armstrong County. It is likely that he used Camp Orr, which had been established on the Fairground near Kittanning, to muster the company before it traveled to Pittsburgh to join the rest of the regiment. After arriving in the Washington, D.C. area for drilling, several members of Company D had an encounter with an important stranger.
The name of the company was the Finlay Cadets. In different documents the name is spelled both "Finlay and "Finley," sometimes both in the same document. The unit was named for John B. Finlay, a prominent business executive and lawyer who lived in Kittaning. Luther S. Dickey, in his regimental history of the 103d Pennsylvania, writes that John Borland Finlay was born in Ireland and educated at both Belfast and Leipzig, receiving both A. M. and PhD. degrees. He emigrated to the U.S. and became a Presbyterian pastor, serving in that capacity until shortly after he was married. He then was admitted to the bar and became an attorney. He became known as a cultured gentleman with a forceful personality. After the war broke out, under the title Colonel Finlay, he had supervisory authority in military affairs for Armstrong County. He was sanctioned by both the Pennsylvania governor and the Secretary of War to recruit troops, but he never received a commission to do so, so the title of colonel was self-inposed. In addition to recruiting them, he served as a patron for several military companies, funding, and outfitting them. The expense of outfitting them willingly fell to his business partner and father-in-law, J. E. Brown, who was known as one of the wealthiest citizens of Pennsylvania. In addition to his connection with Captain Beck's Finlay Cadets, Finlay was instrumental in the formation of the "Loyal Union Guards," that became Company K, led by J. A. Cline [Cline was one who spelled Finlay's name both ways in his memoir] and helped recruit, organize, and outfit the 78th and 103d Pennsylvania Regiments. Finlay was also largely responsible for lobbying the Secretary of War to authorize Camp Orr as a rendezvous camp and military training facility for Armstrong County. After its creation, Finlay served with J. E. Brown, in directing the commissary department of Camp Orr, which (but I am only speculating) might have been a lucrative endeavor. Dickey indicated that Finlay created contentiousness in the formation of the 103d. After Finlay secured the commanding officer post for the regiment for Lt. Col. T. F. Lehmann of the 62d, having never before shown any interest in commanding a company or regiment, has angered by Lehmann's failure to consult with him about several appointments, and decided to assume command of the regiment himself. At the time, no officers had yet been commissioned, but after tearing the regiment apart with divided loyalties, the governor himself worked out a compromise and Lehmann, with genuine military experience was given command of the regiment and Finlay made commander of Camp Orr. After the war Finlay became one of the early Pennyslvania oil speculators.
Several volunteers from Elders Ridge, in neighoring Indiana County, joined together. Among them were Clark Coleman, John Reed Duncan, John Henderson, William Logan Reed, William and Matthew Smith, Christopher Stuchell, and John Watson. Some of them may have been classmates at the Elders Ridge Academy. John Henderson, the Smith brothers, and John Watson lived on neighboring farms. Henderson, Watson, and one of the Smith brothers were all born within a year of each other. Stuchell and the other Smith brother were both listed as 18 year old students. Some were cousins or slightly removed cousins.
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Company Roster |
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NOTE: Armstrong County Pennsylvania Genealogy Project includes a transcription of Robert Walker Smith's History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), which contains information about the 62d Pennsylvania. Unfortunately the roster for Company D listed there is incomplete, and information concerning Company G is inaccurate. The roster is for Company G of the 63d Pennsylvania, not the 62d. I don't know whether the error is in the original or the transcription.
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William C. Beck |
Captain |
Captured at The Wilderness, 5 May 1864. Discharged 28 December 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 24; Occupation: Teacher; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Light; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'7 1/2" According to pension index, Beck died in 1911 in Kansas. His widow was Sarah M. Beck. For more information about Beck, see this biographical sketch from a 1905 History of Crawford County Kansas. From this source, we learn that Beck was born on 26 April 1837. He was reared on a farm until he was thirteen when his father died. He was then bound out to a banker in Kittanning, and served as his bank clerk while also attending school. Other early jobs included store clerk, nailer in a rolling mill, and school teacher. He received an appointment to attend West Point, but only attended for about a year. That gave him enough military training to be sought after as a drilling instructor for various militias before he organized the Finlay Cadets. His marksmanship was so good that he won a gold medal just before the outbreak of the war in a contest between the rifle clubs of six counties of western Pennsylvania. Bates indicates only that he was captured at the Wilderness. The sketch provides additional details. "Beck was captured near Robinson's Tavern and taken as a prisoner to Macon, Georgia, where he was held until Atlanta fell; he was then kept at Savannah until the capture of that city, and was then moved to Charleston, where he and a large number of other officers who were prisoners were exposed to the fire of the Union army. Soon after, the yellow fever became epidemic at Charleston, and he was removed to Columbus, South Carolina, where, along with twelve hundred other officers, he received his welcome exchange. He had undergone the horrors of prison life for seven months, which was his most trying experience during the war. On December 19, 1864, he was mustered out at Washington, with a most creditable record as a gallant, fearless and efficient soldier." After the war, Beck had quite a colorful and prosperous career. After initially returning to Kittanning to be a bookkeeper at his old bank, he was enticed by his brother, who had also been a captain in the war, to fight in Mexico against Maximilian. Somehow, however, before reaching Mexico, they decided to purchase cattle in Texas and start a cattle drive to Chicago. While in Kansas, in the midst of the cattle drive, they tried some land speculating and prospecting for coal. Somewhere on his exploits in Kansas, he met a 16 year old Hoosier, Sarah Houston, and married her. After reaching Chicago with his cattle (and new wife?), however, he returned to Pennsylvania. They remained in his home state for a dozen years and had one child before they returned to Kansas in 1883. He had purchased land in what became Pittsburg, Kansas, ten years before it was founded, and returning to the land as the new town was growing, he helped develop the community, prospered with it operating a grist mill, building a coal mining operation, and becoming a bank director. In the 1910 Census he listed his occupation as "Capitalist." An additional account of Beck is found in J. A. Cline's memoir of Company K, 155th P. V. Beck left West Point after two and a half years of service "owing to intolerance of Southerners who then were largely in majority and control of the Academy". Beck put his military training to good use, however. Cline describes being involved with a company of young men who took night lessons drilling in the use of musket and company movements. This company was led by Beck and may very well have been the forerunner to the Finlay Cadets. Cline notes that while traveling by horseback through the countryside in August 1862 to recruit volunteers for his company, one Sunday he met Capt. W. C. Beck, "who had previously drilled a number of us at the court house, and who had about completed the organization of a volunteer company called the "Finley Cadets [sic]." The was the time period between the Battle at Malvern Hill, which was fought in July, and the Second Battle at Bull Run, which was fought at the end of August 1862. Cline seems to be suggesting that Beck was on a recruiting foray, since the 62d had significant casualities at Gaines Mill and Malvern Hill. If so, he doesn't appear to have been very successful. The only soldier I can find that join in August off 1862 were Asa James Hagerson, whose father was already an officer in the company, and Henry A. Troutman. I have seen no indication that Beck was not present for any battles. |
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Ezra J. Putney |
1st Lieutenant |
Resigned 30 October 1862, apparently because of ill health or injury. He died two months later. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 24; Occupation: Merchant; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'5 1/2" Born 31 July 1837. Died 30 December 1862. Buried in Putneyville Cemetery, Mahoning Twp., Armstrong Co., Pa. |
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Robert S. Townsend |
Sergeant; 2d Lieutenant; 1st Lieutenant |
Promoted from Sergeant to 2d Lieutenant, 2 July 1862; promoted to 1st Lieutenant., 30 October 1862. Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. There is no indication in an record I have seen, but after Captain Beck was captured at the Wilderness, Townsend must have served in the capacity of the captain of the company the final months of the company's service. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 26; Occupation: Professor; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Black; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'7" The 1870 Census lists Robert Townsend in South Bend Township, Armstrong County, with wife Mary Hellen. His occupation is listed as Dry Goods Merchant (ret.). They had two children under the age of 5. Ten years later he was now a general merchant and four more children had been born. According to the Biographical and Historical Catalogue of Washington and Jefferson College, 1902, Townsend was a teacher in Oakland, Mississippi, from 1856-59; a medical student in Apollo and Pittsburg in 1859-1860, a teacher in Wilsonville, Ky., from 1860-1861. After the war he was in the oil business from 1964 to 1866, a merchant in South Bend, Pa., from 1866 to 1887, and in Kansas City, Mo., in 1887. He married Helen Durett. According to pension index, Townsend died in 1885. His widow, Mary H. Townsend, filed for the pension from Missouri. |
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William M. Duke |
2d Lieutenant |
Resigned February 6, 1862.
Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 24; Occupation: Cabinet Maker; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Auburn; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'8" The 1890 Veterans Schedules lists his home then as Rural Valley, Armstrong County. According to pension index, Martha A. Duke filed for a widow's pension in 1918. |
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John D. Elder |
1st Sergeant; 2d Lieutenant |
Promoted from 1st Sergeant to 2d Lieutenant., 7 February 1862. Killed at Malvern Hill, Va., 1 July 1862 Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 23; Occupation: Law student ; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 6' According to the Biographical and Historical Catalogue of Washington and Jefferson College, 1902, Elder was born in Elder's Ridge, Pa., 18 November 1837, was a teacher in Mississippi, and a law student at the college from 1856-1859. See also the frame that held his portrait that confirms information about his death. |
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Jefferson Truitt |
Sergeant; 2d Lieutenant |
Promoted from Sergeant, 30 October 1862. Killed at Bethesda Church, Va. June 3, 1864. Buried in National Cemetery, Cold Harbor, Va; Section C. Truitt was from Kellersburg, in Armstong County, Pa. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 24; Occupation: Carpenter; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'6" See also a smaller image of the uncropped portrait that includes name, rank, and company written in. It is apparently the only known portrait of Truitt. |
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Daniel Swigart |
Corporal; Sergeant; 1st Sergeant |
Promoted from Corporal to Sergeant, 1 November 1862; promoted to 1st Sergeant, 5 May 1864. Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 23; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'9" Swigart returned to Pennsylvania after the war. The 1890 Veterans Schedules lists his home then as Indiana, Pa. According to his record in the pension index, he filed for an invalid pension in 1890. In May 1928(?), a death benefit pension was filed for a "helpless child" dependent named John J. Swigart. |
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Matthew M. Steele, listed in Bates as M. M. Steel |
1st Sergeant |
Not on muster-out roll. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: No personal information listed. Filed invalid pension in September 1889. Name also appears as Matthew McSteel in an 1890 special census of surviving civil war veterans. |
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Samuel Neale Crawford |
Corporal; Sergeant |
Promoted from Corporal, 7 February 1862. On July 1, 1863 he was reported as slightly wounded at Gettysburg, and on July 2 he was reported as severely wounded in both legs. Returned to the company sometime in 1864. Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Record in pension index indicate he was absent, returning from a hospital stay at muster out; his papers were left in Pittsburgh for him to pick up. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 21; Occupation: Painter; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'9" Other family records add his weight at 136 lbs. to the above personal information. On 6 September 1866 in Armstrong County, he married Rosanna Crum (also of Armstrong County), daughter of Captain Daniel Crum, who was killed near Winchester in 1864 (Co. B, 139th P.V.). They had three children. After the war Samuel worked as a painting and carpentry contractor. He filed for an invalid pension in 1881, when living in Armstrong County. Later applications for increases dating from 1916 through 1926 indicate he was living in Aspinwall, Pa. The 1890 Veterans Schedules lists his home as Manorville, Armstrong County. His three hospital stays and his later pension claim were not for wounds from Gettysburg but from a sprained back suffered in 1864. Both pension and Crawford family records indicate Samuel died in Allegheny Co. in 1929. Record in pension index indicate that he died on March 28, 1929. One contradictory report of his death comes from a notation in the Watson album, which indicates that he died of wounds at home in Kittaning. Where the confusion comes from, I do not know. |
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Reuben Bingaman |
Corporal; Sergeant |
Captured at Gainseville, 27 June 1862, as evidenced by his being listed on register of Prisoners Received at C. S. Prison [Richmond?] on June 27th and 29th, 1862. Promoted from Corporal, 1 November 1862; absent, sick at muster-out . Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 24; Occupation: Furnace Man; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'11" |
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William Hagerson |
Sergeant |
Killed 5 May 1864 in the Wilderness; buried originally on the battlefield, then moved to the Frederickburg National Cemetery, grave #1278. The story of his last battle, related by his granddaughter, Iva Hicks, shows the tragedy of war. In the midst of battle in the dense thickets of trees and brush, a forest fire broke out and becane the worst enemy that day. Blinding smoke and sufficating heat bore down on soldiers on both sides, and communication between company commanders was lost. In the confusion, Sergeant Hagerson was shot in the back of the head, unfortunately, it is believed, by one of his own men. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 40; Occupation: Shoemaker; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Light; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 6'1" Born on 5 July 1820, William was a shoemaker before the war and had served as a justice of the peace in 1846. After he andMary Magdalen King were married in 1844, they settled near Miller's Eddy. They had eight children, including Pvt. Asa Hagerson, also of Company D. Records from the Hiles-Snow Cemetery in Perry Township confirm that William was married to Mary M. Hagerson, 1822-1913. Mary outlived not only her husband but several of her children: Curtis, 1847-1902; Melinda d. 18 Jul 1871, aged 20 yrs., 4 mos., 21 days; Silas d. 18 May 1871, aged 22 yrs., 3 mos.; William d. 11 Aug 1865, aged 10 yrs., 9 mos. Two letters written by Hagerson while he was in winter camp have been preserved, as has a portrait of father and son in uniform. Thanks to Mildred Loose and Mrs. Charles Hillard for information about the Hagerson family. |
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William H. Smith |
Sergeant |
Promoted to Sergeant, 21 March 1862. Wounded at Malvern Hill. Transferred to Company G of the 10th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps. [According to Bates, Smith was "Not on muster-out roll."] Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 19; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Indiana Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'9" According to Standard History of Kansas and Kansans by William Elsey Connelley (1918), William H. Smith came to Kansas with his arm in a sling as a result of a wound received at Malvern Hill. He lived in the state for over half a century. Among his occupations were farmer, merchant, public official and banker. Smith was born at West Lebanon on 3 December 1841, a son of Robert and Sarah (Wray) Smith. His grandfather, James Smith, immigrated from County Tyrone, Ireland. He grew up on a farm, but his father was also a stock buyer and merchant. Many of his brothers also served in the Civil War and later moved to Kansas. His brother James served three terms as Kansas Secretary of State. Smith was a student in the Elders Ridge Academy until he left in the spring of 1860 to work as an oil prospector along the Little Kanawha River, now West Virginia. As war loomed, he returned to Elders Ridge, and with a group of neighbors enlisted in Company D. He was wounded at the battle of Gaines Mill, and at Malvern Hill on July 1, 1862, he was shot through the left shoulder. He lay wounded on the field for four days before he was picked up and given medical attention. Removed to Bedloe Island in New York harbor, he went on the operating table on 6 July. Thereafter for eight years , he carried his arm in a sling. Transferred to the Invalid Corps, his duties included the charge of the night nurses at Fort Schuyler, recruiting, and looking after prisoners. During the draft riot in New York City in 1863 he led a platoon that fought the rioters for several days. After the war Smith returned to Elders Ridge briefly before enrolling in the Iron City Business College for three months. On 3 September 1865, he started west with his wife and arrived in Kansas ten days later, traveling by rail and on foot, where he joined his brothers James and Robert W. Smith's first work in Marshall County, Kansas, was taking the scum off the boilers used for making sorghum. Other jobs included traveling salesman, cattle herding, and breaking the virgin sod of the prairie. In the fall of 1868 he was elected a member of the Legislature from Marshall County. In 1870 he was appointed deputy United States Marshal under Colonel Houston, and in that capacity took the census of the southern half of Marshall County. After serving again in the legislaturehe moved to Marysville, and served as postmaster for fourteen years. He was also a merchant, establishing the firm of Smith & Libby, selling groceries and farm implements and buying and shipping grain, and owned a farm of 160 acres a mile east of Marysville. On retiring from the office of postmaster, Smith was elected county treasurer. In 1890 he was appointed supervisor of the census of the fifth congressional district, and from 1902 to 1904 served as Secretary of the State Railroad Commission. One of the organizers of the Citizens State Bank of Marysville in 1907, he filled the position of president until he resigned on the first day of 1913. An active member of Lyons Post No. 9, Grand Army of the Republic, he served as its commander a number of terms. For thirty years he was a director of the Kansas State Historical Society and served as its president in 1902. He was an active Republican. Smith appears to have been married twice but had no children. |
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James J. Barrett |
Corporal |
Absent, sick at muster-out Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 20; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'7" CWVCF notes Barrett was discharged for disability. The 1890 Veterans Schedules lists his service as the full 3 years. plus 7 days. His widow Bessie H. Barrett, was then living in Kellersburg, Armstrong County. |
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Josiah J. Callen |
Corporal |
Promoted to Corporal, 1 July 1862. Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 22; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'11 1/2" Bates lists his first name as Joseph, but Record in pension index and CWVCF indicate Josiah is correct first name. The 1890 Veterans Schedules lists his name Josiah J. Callen. He was then living in Widnoon, Armstrong County. Under "Disability Incurred" the note is "Wounded both legs." |
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David P. Truitt |
Corporal |
Promoted to Corporal, 10 December 1862 Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'6" Truitt died in 1896. According to Record in pension index, at the time of his death he had a minor child, Florence P. Truitt. His widow was Elma S. Bruce. |
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Wesley K. Dillon |
Corporal |
Promoted to Corporal, 1 August 1862 Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. [It was not so indicated in Bates, but he was wounded at the battle of Spottsylvania Court-House, Va., May 12, 1864, by bullets and buckshot in his left lower leg, and was confined to the hospital from May 14 to Sept. 1, 1864, when he was mustered out, receiving an honorable discharge.] Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 15; Occupation: Student; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Light; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'5". Roll indicates last name spelled Dillen. Son of Reuben Dillon, also of Company D. Dillon was born in Wheeling, Va. (now West Virginia), June 27, 1846, but moved with his family while at an early age to Pennsylvania, to Minnesota after the death of his mother, and back to Pennsylvania in 1860. After the war he returned to school and earned a teaching certificate. After a few years of teaching school, he became connected with the Dixmont (Pa.) Hospital for the Insane and continued there till 1874. He then attended Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, earning a two-year medical degree and served in positions in hospitals for the insane in Danville, Pa, Morristown, NJ, and Iowa. He became Assistant Supervisor of the Iowa State Hospital for the Insane at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, in 1885. Dillon a Republican and a Mason. According to Record in pension index, Dillon died in or before 1916 in Illinois. His widow was Flora G. Dillon. |
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George W. Stiffey |
Corporal |
Promoted to Corporal, 1 August 1862 Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 21; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 6' Pension index record for Stiffey indicates he returned to Pennsylvania
and lived there at least until 1891. The 1890 Veterans Schedules lists his home as Brattonville, Armstrong County. "None" was listed as "Disability Incurred." |
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Jeremiah A. Mellinger |
Corporal |
Transferred to Company K of the 134th Pennsylvania Volunteers after just over a year of service in the 62d. Bates lists Mellinger as "Not on muster-out roll." Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 28 (20?); Occupation: Carpenter; Residence: Butler Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'2 1/2". In the 134th P. V. roster he is listed as Jere. A. Millinger. In that regiment, he mustered in as Sergeant on 10 August 1862. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant on 1 September 1862 and was wounded at Fredericksburg on 13 December 1862. He was discharged for medical reasons on 1 March 1863 and filed for an invalid pension on 1 April 1865. CWVCF record for Jeremiah Millinger of the 134th collaborates the Butler residency, but it lists his Age at Enrollment as 20. |
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William Turney |
Corporal |
Promoted to Corporal, date unknown. Transferred as a private on 29 September 1864 to Company K of the 7th Pennyslvania Cavalry (80th Pennsylvania Volunteers), where he is listed as William Terney. He was discharged by general order 23 June 23 1865. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 20; Occupation: Blacksmith; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Auburn; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'8". CWVCF record for William Terney is a see reference to William Turney. The 1890 Veterans Schedules lists his home as Brockwayville, Jefferson County. "Bronchitis and Rheumatism" were listed as "Disability Incurred." According to pension index record, he died in or before 1894 in Pennsylvania. His widow was Rachel M. Turney. |
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Arthur C. Cassedy, or Cassady |
Corporal |
Wounded in the Wheatfield at Gettysburg and had his arm amputated. He was mustered out from the York PA hospital in September 1863. Listed as "Not on muster-out roll" in Bates. Name spelled Cassady in Bates. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 24; Occupation: Artist; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'10" The 1890 Veterans Schedules lists his name as Cassady and his home as Smicksburg, Indiana County. Under "Disability Incurred" the note indicates "Loss of left arm." Thanks to John Postage for information about his great great grandfather. |
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William S. Doutt |
Corporal |
Veteran volunteer. Promoted to Corporal, 29 March 1862. Transferred to Company A, 155th P. V., 3 July 1864, serving as a private. Transferred to Company I, 191st P. V., 2 June 1865. Mustered out 28 June 1865. Listing in Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866 provides no additional information. According to the 1850 Census, William Doutt was then a 15 year old stone mason living at home in Brady's Bend (Perry Township), Pa (Armstrong County). The Doutt family is missing in 1860 census. Born in Pa. His father, John, was born in England. Twenty years later he was still in Brady's Bend as a plasterer, living with his wife Elizabeth and four children. His widow, Elizabeth A. Doutt, filed for a widow's pension in 1919. |
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Martin McCanna |
Corporal |
Resigned to become Captain of Company B, 74th P. V. Listed in Bates as "Not on muster-out roll." The records are unclear, but what seems to have happened was that while at Camp Orr, outside of Kittanning, Martin M'Canna, after less than a months service with the 62d, mustered in on 14 August as 1st Lieutenant of Company B, 74th P. V. It seems that when McCanna left Company D for his advancement, the paperwork went missing. McCanna became Captain of Company B in 26 December 1862. Mustered out at expiration of his term, 4 November 1864, Captain Martin McCanna, with Lieutenant Joel Crawford, after their term of service in the 78th had expired, recruited volunteers in Armstrong County for a new company. According to Robert Walker Smith's History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, the company was mustered into the 104th P. V. on 15 March 1865 to serve for one year, but actually served for only a little over six months. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment (as Captain of the 104th on 15 March 1865): 30; Residence: Armstrong Co. His record in the pension file does not list the 62d. The 1890 Veterans Schedules lists his name as McCanna, with no mention of the 62d, and his home as Knox, Clarion County. Also serving in the 78th were Corporate William McCanna and Private Barnabas McCanna. Barnabas and Martin were first names in several generations of McCannas who settled in Clarion County. The 1910 Census lists Martin McCanna, aged 76, living in Kittanning with his brother Wilson O. Mccanna. Two online family trees indicate Martin McCanna, born in 1833 or 1834, died in Brookville, Jefferson County, in 1911. |
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Robert Sutton |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: M.I: As Mus.; Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Boatman; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Light; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5' 5 1/2" Mustered in as Musician; mustered out as a Private, according to the "United States National Archives. Civil War Service Records [database on-line]." The 1890 Veterans Schedules lists his rank as Musician and his home in 1890 as Brady's Bend, Armstrong County. |
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John M. Watson |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: M.I: As Mus.; Age at Enrollment: 21; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Indiana Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Black; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'10" Mustered in as Musician; mustered out as a Private, according to the "United States National Archives. Civil War Service Records [database on-line]." For full information, see his entry as a private. |
'But who among the private soldiers is named? Have the dead been mentioned except in numbers? Have the cripples been referred to except in the aggregate? Yet it was the rank and file that stood the shock of battle and that gave blow for blow. It was the columns of soldiers that charged the enemy or stood like a rock against fierce assaults. Does history do more with the name of the private soldier than bundle it up with a thousand others and call the combination a regiment?' -- Captain W. J. Patterson, 62d Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment"
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Remarks. (All mustered in on 24 July 1861, except where noted.) |
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Martin Aaler |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Wagoner; Residence: Clarion Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'9 1/2". |
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Harrison Anthony |
Wounded at Gettysburg, 2 July 1863. Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 20; Occupation: Furnace Man; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'7". According to information supplied by his grandson, William Fryer, Anthony died at the age of 83 at Arnold, Pa. |
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William Bailey |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Miner; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Black; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'6". The 1890 Veterans Schedules lists his home then as East Brady, Armstrong County. |
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Henry Bargerstock |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 20; Occupation: Wagoner; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'8" Henry Bargerstock was married in 1866, and he and his wife had 11 children. He died in 1918. Henry Bargerstock may be related to a family of Bargerstocks came to America from Germany and settled in Armstrong County in 1827. The 1890 Veterans Schedules lists his home then as Bells Mills, Jefferson County. |
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Alfred B. Barnhart |
Not on muster-out roll. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 20; Occupation: Enginer; Residence: Butler Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'9" Barnhart moved to Nebraska sometime after the war and was living there in 1887, when he filed for an invalid pension. |
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John Beattie |
Not on muster-out roll. Listing in Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866 provides no additional information. |
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Jacob Bell |
Wounded; discharged 10 December 1862. Listed in Bates as "Not on muster-out roll." Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Furnace Man; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'7" The 1890 Veterans Schedules lists his home then as Sharpsburg, Armstrong County. According to a biographical sketch of his brother Benjamin Bell in a Armstrong County, Pennsylvania: Her People Past and Present (1914), Jacob was wounded and discharged for disability after serving two years. At the time of the book's publication, he was living in Sharpsburg, Pa. |
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Wakefield Berry |
Mustered into service 31 March 1864. Transferred to Company A, 155th reg. P.V., 3 July 1864. Transferred to Company I, 191st P. V. Listing in Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866 provides no additional information. He was survived by at least two sons, Joseph C., born 1864 and Wakefield, Jr., born 1885. |
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William G. Black |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 25; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'10" Moved to Missouri after the war. The 1890 Veterans Schedules lists his home then as Isadora, Mo. He filed for an invalid pension from Missouri in 1889. His wife Silvina filed for a widow's pension in Oregon in 1902. |
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George W. Blake |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Teamster; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'6" According to his pension file, George W. Blake died in or before 1909. His widow was Mary D. Blake. |
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Samuel W. Bowler |
Discharged on Surgeon's certificate for disability, 28 January 1862. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 45; Occupation: Tailor; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Gray; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'7" Was listed in Mahoning Township, Armstrong County, in 1860 Census. |
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Casper Bradenbaugh |
Died before first battle. According to a letter from 1st Lieutenant Putney, Bradenbaugh died at Washington Street General Hospital, Alaxandria [sic], Va. on 18 May 1862 at 7 P.M. of Phlibisis Pulmonalis [sic]. He was buried on 19 May 1862 in the Alexandria National Cemetery in Section A, Grave 9. Bates, in error, indicates Grave #8. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Laborer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'6 1/2" |
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James I. Brown |
Not on muster-out roll. Card missing in CWVCF. |
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John B. Buckley |
Died 17 May 1863. Buried in Military Asylum Cemetery, D.C. Card missing in CWVCF. |
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Samuel Byers |
Died of a wound received 5 May 1864 at the Wilderness. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 23; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'11" According to information supplied by his great, great grandson, Byers had two children, Martha and John S. Samuel's wife, Mary A. Byers (nee Bair) remarried a man named Miller and had a raft of children. |
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William G. Campbell |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 32; Occupation: Wagoner; Residence: Jefferson Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'7 1/2" In 1860 Campbell was a 31 year old laborer living in Punxsutawney with a wife, Sarah, and daughter, Ione. |
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Clark Coleman |
Mustered into service 1 March 1862. Died date unknown. Buried in the Wilderness burial grounds [Fredericksburg National Cemetery]. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 28; Occupation: Teacher; Residence: Indiana Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'9" The 1850 Census lists Clark Coleman as living with his family in Young Township, Indiana County. His occupation was listed as farmer, as was his father and two older brothers. The whole family was born in Pennsylvania. Clark was part of a big family. In 1850, his father James and mother Mary had 7 children ranging in age from 23 to 7. If Clark Coleman was a teacher when he joined the 62d, he may have taught at Elders Ridge Academy and joined the regiment with several of his students. However, he also could have taught in one of the Indiana County rural schools. Unfortunately, I have not been able to confirm where he taught. |
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Jonathan Craft |
Not on muster-out roll. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: [No personal information provided] Remarks: (Not on M.O. Roll. Bates). (Rolls show last name as Croft) |
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Henry Crawford |
Listed in Bates as "Absent, sick at muster out." However, according to the Civil War pension index, he was transferred to Company D, 11th Veteran Reserve Corps. On another line is this notation: "131. Co: 2. Battalion V.R.C." Earlier in the war, the VRC was known as the Invalid Corps. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 31; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'9" The 1890 Veterans Schedules indicates he was then living in Petrolia, Butler County. The note for "Disability Incurred" lists "Shot in henches[?] & back." Listed after Henry Crawford is John Crawford of Company K[?] of the 62d, also living in Petrolia, who served from 14 July 1863 to March 1864, 8 months 4 days, with disability, "Crippled in Right Leg[?]" John Crawford filed for a pension in 1889 listing "Company I, 62 Pa. Inf." in the service line. There is no John Crawford in the regiment according to Bates. |
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John Daughenbaugh |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 24; Occupation: Merchant; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'5 1/2" His daughter, Eliza Daughenbaugh, filed for a dependents' pension in 1900 from Pennsylvania. |
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Thomas Davis |
Wounded 7 May 1864. Absent at muster out. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 32; Occupation: Miner; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Black; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'6" The 1890 Veterans Schedules indicates he was then living in Karns City, Butler County. The note for "Disability Incurred" lists "Gun Shot in Left Arm. Totally Disabling." |
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Robert Dearmott |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 22; Occupation: Miner; Residence: Clarion Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Dark; Height: 6' The 1890 Veterans Schedules indicates he was then living in Rimersburg, Clarion County. His wife, Mary J. (Henderson) Dearmott, filed for a widow's pension on 16 March 1909 in Pennsylvania. Robert may be the brother of Samuel Dearmott of Company C. |
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Daniel Devinney |
Wounded at Gaines Mill, 27 June 1862, and believed to have died on the battlefield. "Volunteer Descriptive List" document, dated 5 June 5 1863, completed and signed by Captain Beck at Camp near Kelley's Ford, indicates that Devinney had blue eyes and dark hair, was born in Ireland, and was a teacher by occupation. Notes on document include: "Was a faithful soldier always doing his duty"; "Was wounded at Gain's Mill Va in battle 27th June 1862 not since heard from - The wound was severe - the ball entered the shoulder."; and "The books and all records were lost in the "Seven days fight" before Richmond consequently are unable to furnish a correct descriptive list - and Clothing account". On the reverse of the document is note "died in battle of Gaines Mills, Va. 27 June, 1862." Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 21; Carpenter: Miner; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Black; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'8 3/4" Listed in Bates as "Not on muster-out roll." |
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Reuben Dillon |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 41; Occupation: Laborer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Light; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'7 1/2" Roll indicates last name spelled Dillen. Father of Wesley K. Dillon, corporal in Company D, according to Portrait and Biographical Album, Henry County, Iowa (Chicago, 1888). Dillon married Lydia B. Monk, who died 1856. After his wife's death, the father and son moved to Minnesota, but returned to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1860. Bates lists Reuben as mustering out while a private. The Henry County biographical sketch of his son indicates Reuben served as a quartermaster and died from exposure while in service. |
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Richard C. Dodson |
Not on muster-out roll. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 27; Occupation: Lumberman; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'8" According to his pension file, Dodson died in or before 1889 in Pennsylvania. |
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James I. Dougal |
Mustered into service 2 September 1861; wounded, date and place unknown.
Transferred to Company A, 155th reg. P.V., 3 July 1864; Veteran volunteer.
Transferred to Company I, 191st P. V., 2 June 1865. Mustered out with
company at Washington, DC, on 28 June 1865.
Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: [no card for D- 62 I or A- 155 I. Card for I- 191 I is blank after name: Dougal, James -. The 1860 Census lists James Dougal as a 16 year old farm laborer living at home in Murraysville (Alleghany Township), Westmoreland County. Called Milt Dougal in Watson album. |
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David K. Doutt |
Mustered into service 20 March 1864. Transferred to Company A, 155th reg. P.V., 3 July 1864. Transferred to Company A, 155th P. V., 3 July 1864. Transferred to Company I, 191st P. V., 2 June 1865. Mustered out 28 June 1865. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: No personal information on card. According to the 1850 Census, William Doutt was then 9 years old living at home in Brady's Bend (Perry Township), Pa (Armstrong County). One of his brothers was William. The Doutt family is missing from the 1860 Census. According to the 1870 Census, Doutt was a 26 year old blacksmith living with his wife, one child, and his father, John, in Queenstown, Armstrong County. The 1890 Veterans Schedules, which lists his 191st service only, indicates he was then living in Haymaker, McKean County. Doutt filed for invalid pension in 1888 in Pennsylvania. His wife, Bessie Doutt, filed for a widow's pension in1909 from Ohio. |
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John K. Dumars |
Began his service as a private in the 1st Pennsylvania Volunteers, a three month regiment recruited in Harrisburg and Dauphin County. He was mustered into Company E on 29 April 1861 and was mustered out on 23 July 1861. He is listed in the roster as John K. Drumers. He apparently did not serve a full three years in the 62d. He is listed in Bates as "Not on muster-out roll," but at some time tranferred to Company D, 5th US Artillery. On 27 February 1865 mustered in to Company G, 21th Pennsylvania Cavalry, dismounted, which was also enumerated 182d Pennsylvania, a regiment that fought in the 62d's brigade in its last months of service. Dumars mustered out with the regiment on 8 July 1865. He moved to South Dakota sometime after the war, filing for an invalid pension there in 1891. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 20; Occupation: Tinner; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'7 3/4" CWVCF also indicates that while in the 62d PV, Dumars was promoted to sergeant (date unknown), but returned to the ranks at his own request on 21 March 1862.. |
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John R. Duncan, |
Veteran volunteer. Mustered into service 4 September 1861. Transferred
to Company A, 155th reg. P.V., 3 July 1864.
Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 17; Occupation: Student; Residence: Indiana Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Gray; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'8 1/2". CWVCF adds further detail that Duncan reenlisted on 27 December 1863 at camp in Virginia. The 1850 Young Township, Indiana County, census lists Reed as the 6 year old son of John and Letis Duncan. He had two older sisters. The whole family was born in Pennsylvania. It is possible that in 1867, he traveled with about 40 other members the Olivet Presbyterian Church near Elder's Ridge, Pa., to follow Reverend Samuel Anderson on horseback and covered wagon to College Springs, Iowa, after Anderson accepted a call to become pastor of a new Presbyterian Church there. This group also included John Henderson. The congregation arrived in Iowa 1 July 1867 after a 9 week journey. Unfortunately the middle (and preferred) name of Reed, as indicated in the Watson album, does not match Iowa records for John T. Duncan. |
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George W. Enterline |
Deserted, returned, absent, in confinement, at muster out. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866:
Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Carpenter; Residence: Jefferson Co.; Hair: Light;
Eyes: Black; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'8 1/2". CWVCF
adds further detail that in January 1863, when Enterline deserted, he
was in a convalescent camp. |
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George W. Fitch |
Transferred to A Co. 155th reg. P.V., 3 July 1864; Veteran volunteer (Reenlisted 28 December 1863 at Licking Run, Va.). Promoted to Full Sergeant 2 February 1865. Discharged 21 June 1865. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 17; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Butler Co.; Hair: Light; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'10". Pension index also indicates he also served in the 5th US Cavalry. Moved to Iowa after the war. Married Roxsie A. Fitch. List of ex-soldiers, sailors and marines, living in Iowa published by the Iowa Adjutant General's Office in 1886, lists his residence as West Union. |
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John Fleming |
Wounded 13 December 1863 at Fredericksburg. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'5". Probably in hospital or convolescent camp at time of mustering out, but Bates lists him as "Not on muster-out roll." |
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John M. Fleming |
Not on muster-out roll. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Light; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5' 11 1/2" |
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John W. Flowers |
Not on muster-out roll. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Stone cutter; Residence: Allegheny Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'8 1/2". CWVCF includes a crossed out note that Flowers deserted, date unknown. The 1890 Veterans Schedules includes some wrong information, that he was in Company C, not D, and that his service started in April 1861. More puzzling is a note: "Dec 18 63 [indecipherable] paroled." |
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Joseph Foreman |
Transferred to the 44th US Infantry. Listed in Bates as "Not on muster-out roll." Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 30; Occupation: Sawyer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Black; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'8". |
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Robert Gamble |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: No personal information on card. Gamble was probably the son of a shoemaker, also named Robert Gamble. He was 16 years old in 1860. The family lived in Manor Township, Armstrong County. |
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Joshua M. George,
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Mustered into service 29 November 1861. Wounded at Gettysburg, 2 July 1863. Transfered to Company A, 155th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment as a corporal. Mustered out on 10 December 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Dark; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'11". George filed for invalid pension in May 1865. His wife Carrie B. George filed for a widow's pension in May 1914 in Pennsylvania. |
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Josiah George |
Mustered into service 29 November 1861. Wounded on 27 June 1862 at Gaines Mill. Captured at Gettysburg, 2 July 1862. Held as prisoner at Belle Isle, Richmond, Va., for 10 weeks. Transfered to Company A, 155th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment. Mustered out on 10 December 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 28; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Black; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'11". A biographical sketch of Josiah George in a Armstrong County, Pennsylvania: Her People Past and Present (1914), indicates that he was born on a farm in South Bend township. He was 17 when his father, a farmer and saddler, died. Since his older brother took over the farm, Josiah, when he turned 20, learned the carpenter's trade. After three years of carpentry, he then worked for fifteen years in the oil fields of Pennsylvania and New York. There was one special note about his service during the war. After his capture at Gettysburg, while a prisoner at Belle Isle, he was 548th on a list of 550 who were paroled. He would otherwise have been sent to Andersonville Prison. After the war, he returned to Armstrong County and worked on the farm of J. Wray in Kiskimnetas township. He then worked a farm of his own back in South Bend township. He married late in life (in 1895), was a Lutheran and a Democrat. George filed for invalid pension in October 1890. His wife Malena George filed for a widow's pension in January 1916 in Pennsylvania. Family records indicate that his wife Malena Rupert was his first cousin, once removed. He was born in South Bend Township, Armstrong County, moved back there after the war, and is buried in South Bend Cemetery. Josiah and Joshua George appear not to be closely related. Thanks to Tom Chapman for helping me straighten out these two volunteers. |
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Peter C. George |
Mustered into service 29 November 1861; Not on muster-out roll. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 20; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Dark; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'10". |
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William George |
Veteran volunteer. Transferred to Company A, 155th reg. P.V., 3 July 1864. Transferred to Company A, 155th P. V., 3 July 1864. Transferred to Company I, 191st P. V., 2 June 1865. Mustered out 28 June 1865. Listed in Bates as "Not on muster-out roll." Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 19. Resided in Valencia, Pa., after the war. |
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Henry Gould |
Not on muster-out roll. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: No personal information on card. |
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Benjamin F. Gourley |
Died 26 November 1864 Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 28; Occupation: Clerk; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Auburn; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Sandy; Height: 5'11". According to a biographical sketch of the Gourley family in a Armstrong County, Pennsylvania: Her People Past and Present (1914), Benjamin was a native of Cowanshannock township, one of fourteen children, seven of whom grew to maturity. He had been in the army four months when he died of quinsy in a hospital near Washington, D. C. There were several merchants, clerks, and accountants in the family. |
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Ezra Grinder |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. May have been promoted to the rank of Corporal, at least for part of his service. On Grinder's gravestone, "CORP." is engraved [thanks to Rex Penney for sending me a picture of it]. Unfortunately, I have seen no other evidence to collaborate it, and the official record indicates he mustered out as a private, and the 1890 Veterans Schedule lists his rank as Private. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 23; Occupation: Cabinet Maker; Hair: Black; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'11 1/2". In the Mahoning Township, Armstrong County, 1860 Census, Grinder is listed as being 24 years old. He was a carpenter, married to 19 year old Sarah. They had a year old son, Leroy. Sometime after 1880, Grinder moved to Michigan. The 1890 Veterans Schedules lists his residence as Cleon, Manistee, Michigan, and he is buried in the Vicksburg, Mich., cemetery. |
| Asa James Hagerson |
Asa had joined the regiment twice. Before he was yet 18, he enlisted on 13 August 1862 and was mustered in 5 September 1862 at Harrisburg. He became ill and was hospitalized. On 6 April 1863, Asa was discharged by order of H. C. Hart, Surgeon of Philadelphia, on account of Chronic Rheumatism. Asa rejoined the regiment, mustering in on 26 February 1864, accepting a $200 bounty. He was wounded at Spottsylvania Court House. He transferred to Company A, 155th reg. P.V., 3 July 1864. Discharged by general order, date unknown. At some time in his service he also suffered a case of acute hepititis. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Shoemaker; Residence: Franklin Twp, Armstrong Co.; Hair: Light; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5' 5 1/2" Asa was son the of Sgt. William Hagerson, also of Company D. According to
the 1910 Census, Hagerson was still living in Armstrong County. He was
then 64, making him only 15 years old when the war broke out. A portrait
of father and son in uniform must have been taken soon after Asa joined
his father, because his father was killed a little more than two months
after his son's arrival. On 5 May 1864 Asa was wounded in left wrist and
forearm in the same battle in which his father was killed. Hagerson's middle name is not listed in the official military records, and his last name is listed incorrectly in some records as Haggerson and Hageison. Thanks to Mildred Loose and Mrs. Charles Hillard for information about the Hagerson family. |
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Hugh Hailey |
Not on muster-out roll. Card missing in CWVCF. |
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John C. Hawk |
Mustered into service 31 August 1861; Not on muster-out roll. According to the 1860 Census, John C. Hawk was a 38 year old shoemaker. His wife, Margaret, was 32, and they had one son, Sylvester, aged 6. They lived in South Buffalo Township, Armstrong County. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866 info, however, provides different information. There he is listed as a 21 year old farmer from Westmoreland County, with brown eyes, brown hair, and a fair complexion. |
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John Henderson See also an |
Wounded three times in the war. He was wounded on 27 June 1862 at Gaines Mills, one of the regiment's first engagements. He was wounded in the leg by a minie ball at Gettysburg and taken to the field hospital. He was able to rejoin the company in only nine days time. He was last wounded during the Wilderness Campaign in May 1864. Mustered out with company. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 20; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Indiana Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'9". Born 26 November 1840; Died 13 April 1917 (according to family records) John Henderson and John Watson lived on neighboring farms near Elders Ridge in Indiana County and were born within a year of each other. In 1867 he was one of about 40 members of the Olivet Presbyterian Church (near Elder's Ridge, PA) who migrated on horseback and covered wagon to College Springs, Iowa, with Reverend Samuel Anderson after Anderson accepted a call to become pastor of a new Presbyterian Church there. This group included two of Henderson's cousins and Henderson's lame brother James, as possibly John Reed Duncan, and John Watson, of Company D. The congregation arrived in Iowa on 1 July 1867 after a 9 week journey. In Iowa Henderson married Mary Hadassa Wright. In Iowa, John started a farm, but then went into the hardware business with his brother. John also learned the undertaking trade and sold caskets in the hardware store. He returned to Gettsysburg for the 50th anniversery celebration in 1913 and also attended a family reunion in Indiana County, Pa., that same summer. He brought with him the minie ball that had been removed from his leg. List of ex-soldiers, sailors and marines, living in Iowa published by the Iowa Adjutant General's Office in 1886, lists his residence as College Springs. John's brother Robert served in the Seventh Regiment Kansas Cavalry and died at the First Battle of Little Blue River, Missouri, 11 November 1861. |
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Andrew H. Hildebrand |
Died at Chesapeake Hospital, Md., 21 April 1862. 20. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866:
Age at Enrollment: 20; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes:
Brown; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'9" |
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David Hughes |
Discharged on Surgeon's Certificate of Disability, 27 January 1863 in a Philadelphia. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 26; Occupation: Laborer; Residence: Bedford Co.; Hair: Light; Eyes: Grey; Complexion: Light; Height: 5'7. Discharge information from CWVCF; Bates lists him as "Not on muster-out roll". |
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William Johnson |
Not on muster-out roll. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: No personal information on card. |
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Richard Johnston |
Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 20; Occupation: Teamster; Residence: Butler Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'9 1/2. Card also notes that Johnston deserted from convolescent camp, January 1863. Bates lists him as "Not on muster-out roll". |
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Thomas Johnston |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 21; Occupation: Teamster; Residence: Butler Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Black; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'9. |
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Peter Kaler |
Wounded at Spottsylvania Court House 12 May 1864. Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 23; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co. [another source indicates he was from Butler Co.]; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'8. Card also notes name is listed as Kaylor on rolls. Died 8 April 1917, according to Proceedings of the 52d Annual Encampment of the Department of Pennsylvania Grand Army of the Republic (Danville, 1918), where his surname is spelled Kaylor. |
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Hiram Klingensmith |
Mustered into service 29 November 1861 at Olivet, Pa. Not on muster-out roll. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 21; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Dark; Complexion: Dark; Height: 6'3". Born 22 June 1840. Lived in South Bend Township, Armstrong County. Died 30 June 1867. Buried in South Bend Cemetery. The family name was originally Klingenschmidt, and they were Lutherans. There is no record of his having a wife or children. |
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Charles G. Kuhn |
Wounded at Gaines Mills and discharged for disability, date unknown. Bates indicates: "Not on muster-out roll." Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 23; Occupation: Lumberman; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'11". Card also notes that at an unknown date, Kuhn was promoted to corporal and then reduced to the ranks. According to a Kuhn biographical site Charles Gaskil Kuhn was the brother of Thomas. Charles was accidently wounded 3 August 1861 while still at East Liberty, Pa. was a prisoner during June of 1862, wounded in action at both Munson Hill and Gaines' Mill. Shot through one leg at Munson Hill and shot in the other leg at Gaines' Mill. He told his family that he made his way from the battlefield to the medical center by using two muskets as crutches. He was admitted to hospital at Fort Monroe, Va., and then to General Hospital in Annapolis, Md and finally to U.S. Hospital at Patterson Park, Md. where he was discharged on account of disability. |
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Thomas McConnell Kuhn |
Wounded and captured at Gettysburg. Prisoner at Libby Prison and Belle Isle Prison. Rejoined his regiment at Cold Harbor, 29 September 1863. Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Reinlisted 15 March 1865, as First Sergeant, Company K, 104th P. V. Mustered out 25 August 1865. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18 [obituary indicates 17]; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'6" Born in Eddysville, Armstrong County, in 1844. Married Mary E. McBride after the war. They had seven children. Died in Brookville, Pa., when he was 92. See also this biographical site prepared by one of Kuhn's descendants. According to an obituary reproduced there, Kuhn enlisted as a drummer boy, but I can't find any other documentation supporting his being listed as a musician. An annotation to the obituary points out several other errors, so my guess it the obituary writer got this wrong too. |
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John Long |
Killed at Gettysburg 2 July 1863. Buried in Gettysburg National Cemetery, section D, Grave 85. [Not in Bates] There is some confusion concerning John Long, since there were three volunteers by that name in the regiment. John Long from Company D is not listed in Bates, but his burial record at the Gettysburg National Cemetery indicates he was a member of Company D. The John Long from Company L survived the war. John S. Long from Company M died 13 January 1863, of wounds received at Fredericksburg, 13 December 1862. One of these John Longs may also have begun his Civil War service as a private in Company H, 3rd Pennsylvania Regiment Infantry (3 months)-- John B. Long is listed. Thanks to Jen West for helping clear up some of the confusion. It was she who examined the pension records. Her step-father is the great great nephew of John Long from Company D. |
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Francis M. Lowry |
Not on muster-out roll. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 21; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Lycoming Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5' 5" Died 28 January 1921, according to Proceedings of the 56th Annual Encampment of the Department of Pennsylvania Grand Army of the Republic (Altoona, 1922), where his name is listed as Francis W. Lourie. |
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William McCain |
Wounded at Gettysburg. Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Farmer;
Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Light; Eyes: Gray; Complexion: Fair; Height:
5'11 |
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M. W. McClure |
Not on muster-out roll. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: no additional information. |
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John McCrea |
Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Butler Co.; Hair: Red; Eyes: Gray; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'11". CWVCF notes that McCrea, whose name was also spelled McCray, deserted, date unknown, but he is listed in Bates as "Not on muster-out roll." |
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Anthony McGinley |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 24; Occupation: Miner; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5' 6 1/2". |
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John C. McMasters |
Mustered in a wagoner. Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 20; Occupation: Lumberman; Residence: Lycoming Co.; Hair: Light; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: Fair [sic]. |
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Samuel McNabb (aka Samuel McKnabb) |
Mustered into service 27 February 1864. Transfered A Co. 155th P. V., and then enlisted I Co. 191st P. V. Mustered out with company at Washington, DC, on 28 June 1865. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: no additional information other than reference from McNabb in the 62d to McKnabb in the 155th. Resided in Reynoldsville, Pa., after the war. Married and survived by Margaret McNabb. Their one child was Kizzia McNabb. Died in 1899. |
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William G. McSparren |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 21; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Lycoming Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5' 6 1/2" |
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George S. Miller |
Captured at Mine Run, 27 November 1863; absent at muster-out roll. After being captured, Miller ended up at Andersonville Prison and was there in the autumn of 1864. This information is found in an affidavit he made on 15 November 1886 in the pension case of AshKeBugNeKay [which means something akin to "Green Leaf Falling"] (aka "Amos Green"). This Odawa hunter and fisher from near shores of Lake Michigan had served with the 1st Michigan Sharp Shooters. Miller testified that he fed and cared for AshKeBugNeKay, who was suffering from scurvy and rheumatism, and that they planned to escape when the weather turned and the rivers were again swimmable. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 21; Occupation: Lumberman; Residence: Allegheny Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Black; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'8". His name appears George P. Miller in the affadavit, but George S. Miller in both Bates and the Gettysburg memorial. The affidavit was sworn before a justice of the peace in Corry City, in Erie County, Pa. Grateful thanks to R. D. Winthrop of Lansing, Michigan, for sharing the affidavit information with me. |
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John Morgan |
Not on muster-out roll. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 22; Occupation: Engineer; Residence: Allegheny Co.; Hair: Red; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'5" |
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Samuel M. Myrtle |
Transferred to A Co. 155th reg. P.V., 3 July 1864; Veteran volunteer; Enlisted I Co. 191st Inf Reg. PA. Mustered out with company at Washington, DC, on 28 June 1865. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: no additional information. |
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William H. Norman |
Mustered into service 31 March 1864 at Meadville. Not on muster-out roll. According to pension index record, filed by his mother Nancy Norman, he died on or before 5 May 1865. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 21; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Indiana Co.; Hair: Auburn; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'9". |
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John B. Orr |
Killed accidentally by musket ball, 14 April 1862. Buried in Yorktown National Cemetery. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 21; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Indiana Co.; Hair: Auburn; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'9". 1860 census record indicates Orr had been a farm laborer living in West Mahoning Township, Indiana County, before he joined the regiment. He was 18 when the census was taken. |
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George W. Pontius |
Not on muster-out roll. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Light; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'8 1/2" |
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John Reed |
Mustered into service 31 August 1861. Accidentally wounded at Hanover. Not on muster-out roll. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 22; Occupation: Miner; Residence: Clarion Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'8". |
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William Logan Reed |
Wounded at Gettysburg, 2 July 1863. Transferred to 14 C. 2 Battalion Veteran Reserve Corps, date unknown. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Teacher; Residence: Indiana Co.; Hair: Light; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'7". His wife, Anna M. Reed, filed for a widow's pension on 12 January 1909 in Pennsylvania. The pension index also indicates that Reed served with the 23d P. V. The 23d, which was a Philadelphia regiment merged with the 61st P. V., which was mustered in from Indiana County, where many of the volunteers from Company D hailed. According to a genealogical record, Reed was born on 11 February 1843 in Stewartsville, Armstrong Township, Indiana County. He was reared on a farm and taught school. He was attending Elders Ridge Academy when Civil War broke out, quit school to enlist in Co. D. It is not clear to me from the record if he was both teaching school and attending school at the same time or not. He was wounded five times during his service, including at Hanover Courthouse. After his three years service expired, he re-enlisted, but was discharged on Christmas Day, 1864, due to disability from wounds. Returning to civilian life, he went back to school, and completed a literary course at Westminister College, New Wilmington, Pa., in June 1867. He next studied medicine at Cincinnati and returned to Indiana County to practice. He moved several times, from Shelocta to Jacksonville to Homer City, where he was living when he died on 26 September 1908. Listed in Bates as William L. Reed. |
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Washington Reep |
Not on muster-out roll. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 19; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Butler Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5' 10 1/2". |
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George W. Reesman |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 20; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Light; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5' 5 1/2". Roll lists first name as Walter. George W. Reesman pension claim was filed for a minor, William R. Reesman, in Pennsylvania. Date unclear. |
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John Reesman |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 21; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Light; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5' 8". Pension index record indicates he was living in Pennsylvania when he died [date unclear] and that Louisa Doverspike was his widow. |
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R. T. Robison |
Mustered into service 25 March 1864; Transferred to Company A, 155th reg. P.V., 3 July 1864; Wounded at Hatchers Run, 27 October 1864. |
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David Rumbaugh |
Died 6 June 1862 |
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William Rumbaugh |
Wounded at Yorktown, 5 April 1862; Not on muster-out roll. |
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Thompson M. Rutter |
Transferred to Company A, 155th P. V., 2 July 1864. Transferred to Company I, 191st P. V., 2 June 1865. Mustered out with company at Washington, DC, on 28 June 1865. Lived in Reynoldsville, Pa., after the war. |
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George Sanford |
Not on muster-out roll. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 23; Occupation: Carpenter; Residence: Clarion Co.; Hair: Light; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'11". |
| Jeremiah Schreckengost |
Not on muster-out roll. Bates lists him by first initial only. Roll spells last name Schreckengast. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 24; Occupation: Laborer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'1". |
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John G. Schreckengost |
Died before first battle. Died at Columbia College Hospital, D.C., 6 October 1861. His parents, Joseph C. and Polly Schreckengost filed for pensions, his mother in 1879 and his father in 1888. Bates lists him by first initial only. Roll spells last name Schreckengast. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Laborer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Light; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'4". |
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Lewis G. Seip |
Bates indicates Seip mustered into service 2 August 1861. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866 indicates contrarily that he joined 27 January 1864. Transferred to Company A, 155th reg. P.V., 3 July 1864. Enlisted I Co. 191st Inf Reg. PA. Veteran volunteer. Absent, sick, at muster out. Enlisted K Co. 47th Inf Reg. Pa., 30 August 1865. Mustered Out at Charleston, SC on 25 December 1865. Aged 26 at 1864 enrollment. Pension index indicates he married Esther Seip and died on or before 7 October 1895. |
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David Shearer |
Mustered into service 31 March 1864. Transferred to Company A, 155th reg. P.V., 3 July 1864. Enlisted I Co. 191st Inf Reg. PA. Mustered out with company at Washington, DC, on 28 June 1865. According to his record in the pension index, he died on or before 6 June 1866. His widow was Lucinda. |
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B. B. Sibert |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864.. Born 29 May 1839 (making him 22 when he volunteered). Filed for invalid pension 13 June 1902. Married Margaret A. Sibert (second wife). Died in Butler County, Pa., on 4 March 1910. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 22; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Butler Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 6' 1/2". |
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Levi Jackson Silvis |
Record in pension index, completed by his mother (which might indicate he was unmarried) lists service in Company D, but he is not listed in Bates and not found in CWVCF. |
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James Simpson |
Not on muster-out roll. |
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Abraham Smeltzer |
Mustered into service 31 March 1864. Transferred to Company A, 155th reg. P.V., 3 July 1864. Married Elizabeth Smeltzer before the war. Died in City Point, Va., 25 September 1864. |
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Jesse G. Smith |
Mustered into service as a Corporal, but reduced to the ranks, date unknown. Wounded at Gettysburg 2 July 1863; Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 22; Occupation: Teacher; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: N/A; Height: 5'11" |
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Matthew A. Smith |
Died before first battle, on 9 November 1861. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Student; Residence: Indiana Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Black; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'9" If a student and an Indiana County resident, he most likely attended the Elders Ridge Academy. |
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Samuel W. Smith |
Mustered into service 31 March 1864. Transferred to Company A, 155th reg. P.V., 3 July 1864. Killed at Dabney's Mill, 6 February 1865. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Boatman; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'5" |
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Daniel Smyers |
Not on muster-out roll. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: No personal information provided. Name also appears as David Smyers and Daniel Smyres. |
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John W. Smyers |
Transferred to A Co. 155th reg. P.V., 3 July 1864 (where he was promoted to Corporal); Veteran volunteer (Re-enlisted at Licking Run, Va., 28 December 1863). Wounded at Dabney's Mill, 6 February 1865. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Blacksmith; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Light; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'6". Card for 155th P. V. spells name Smeyers. Married Eliza A. Smyers and moved to Illinois after the war. Died in 1891. |
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William Smyers |
Mustered into service 16 March 1864. Transferred to Company A, 155th reg. P.V., 3 July 1864 Card missing in CWVCF. |
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Henry R. Soxman |
Not on muster-out roll. According to Soxman archive, he was wounded at Gettysburg and evacuated to Baltimore, then to a hospital in Philadelphia. On the 24th of July, he arrived home. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'8" An archive of Henry P. Soxman was sold at auction in 2003. Items included, among other things, a flag, a regimental patch, and two diaries he kept from training in 1861 through Gettysburg. According to a newspaper article in the archive, Soxman died tragically trying to save his 8-year-old daughter who was run over by a train. |
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Peter A. Stockdill |
Wounded at Fredericksburg, 13 December 1863. Not on muster-out roll. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 20; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'6" |
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Christopher Stuchell |
Killed at the Wilderness, 5 May 1864. Bates indicates Not on muster-out roll. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Student; Residence: Indiana Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'8". Rolls show last name as Strickel. Family records indicate that Stuchell was wounded two or three times in battle before he was killed at the Wilderness. He grew up on a family farm in Washington Township, Indiana County, the son of Samuel and Lily Stuchell. The Stuchells trace their family back to pre-revolutionary days, but the name suffered spelling changes over the years. Christopher Stuchell's family attended the Centre Presbyterian Church at Creekside. If Stuchell was listed as a student and an Indiana County resident, he most likely attended the Elders Ridge Academy. Thanks to Paul Stuchell for providing me the source for the extra information about this volunteer. |
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Robert Sutton |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Boatman; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Light; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5' 5 1/2" Mustered in as Musician; mustered out as a Private. |
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John B. Taylor |
Not on muster-out roll.; Veteran volunteer, reenlisting in 29 January 1864 at Licking Run, Va. CWVCF notes that he deserted, date unknown. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 20; Occupation: Miner; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 6' |
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Jacob N. Thompson |
Discharged for disability, 6 June 1862, according to CWVCF. Bates indicates "Not on muster-out roll." Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 21; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Gray; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'6" Date of death unknown. Buried Oakmont Cemetery, Verona, Pa. |
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Henry A. Troutman |
Mustered into service on 23 August 1862. Wounded at Cold Harbor, 2 June 1864. Transferred to Company A, 155th reg. P.V., 3 July 1864. Mustered out with company 2 June 1865. Resided in Dubois, Pa., after the war. [Not listed in Bates.] Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; no other personal information listed. |
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John A. Walker |
Killed at Gettysburg 2 July 1863; buried in Gettysburg National Cemetery, section D, Grave 77. Born where Crooked Creek Lake is today. Listed in 1860 Census as living in Eddyville, Armstrong Co., Pa. [Not in Bates nor CWVCF] |
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John W. Waters |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 30; Occupation: Blacksmith; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Brown; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5' 6 1/2". Rolls show last name as Walters. |
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John M. Watson |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: M.I: As Mus; Age at Enrollment: 21; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Indiana Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Black; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'10" Mustered in as Musician; mustered out as a Private, according to the "United States National Archives. Civil War Service Records [database on-line]." He was a fifer according to a report of the Kansas State Historical Society (1916). Watson kept a photo album with pictures of his comrads from the 62d Pennsylvania, primarily soldiers from Company D. Will Gorges, of Civil War Battleground Antiques, kindly shared with me images from a photo album and granted me permission to use them on this site. The album was sold for $5000. Years after the sale, the PHOTO ALBUM was reported to have been STOLEN from the Marshall County Courthouse Museum, in Marysville, Kansas. I wondered what the album was doing in Kansas, and through Portrait and Biographical Album of Marshall County, Kansas (Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1889), I found an answer. John M. Watson moved to Kansas after the war and must have brought the album and diary with him. According the biographical essay in the book, John M. Watson was born in Indiana County, the son of Thomas Watson, a builder of Pennsylvania canal boats (while living in Saltsburg) who later became a farmer near Elder's Ridge. John was the eldest of eight children. He attended Elder's Ridge Academy before enlisting in Company D, The biographical sketch indicates he escaped wound and injury. After the war he returned to Pennsylvania and continued his education at Elder's Ridge until the spring of 1865, when "attacked by the Western fever" he moved to Marshall County, Kansas. He purchased 320 acres of land in Wells Township, and then added another 160 acres under the Homestead Act, plus an additional 80 after that. In addition to farming, he served for one two year term as Register of Deeds of Marshall County. Throughout his years in Kansas he remained active in Republican politics, serving on committees and councils and attending conventions. In 1880 he rented out his farm and moved to Frankfort to try his hand at other business. He first bought and sold livestock, then worked for and later owned a lumber company. He must have been proud of his service in the Civil War, for he became active in the Grand Army of the Republic, serving as quartermaster of Henderson Post No. 53 of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Kansas. He married Emma McDougal, a native of Missouri, on 4 February 1872. They had four children: Frank W., Thomas II., Ida, and Wiley H. We have this description of Watson: "a man of medium stature and build ; his black hair and beard are very slightly sprinkled with gray. His eyes and complexion are dark. He is a man of uniform courtesy, genial and companionable." Watson also claimed, according to the 1916 Biennial Report of the Kansas State Historical Society, to have owned a Colt's navy revolver that once belonged to John Brown. According to Watson, when he presented the revolver to the Kansas Historical Society, several of John Brown's possession had been carried by A. G. Hazlett, when he escaped from Harper's Ferry. After Hazlett was then captured and put on trial, he gave a belt, scabbard and revolver to Robert Smith. When Robert Smith's sons enlisted in the army, he gave the belt and scabbard to one son [William?] and the revolver to another, Mathew A. Smith. Mat Smith then sold the revolver to Watson, who claimed he carried the revolver through three years of service and used it every time he went into battle. |
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Henry Weaver |
Transferred to Company A, 155th reg. P.V., 3 July 1864; Veteran volunteer. Promoted to Corporal 18 February 1865. Discharged by general order 5 June 1865. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 19; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Jefferson Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5'4" |
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William Wilson |
Transferred to A Co. 155th reg. P.V., 3 July 1864; Veteran volunteer. |
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James S. Wood |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 20; Occupation: Blacksmith; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5' 6 1/2". |
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Joseph Worling |
Not on muster-out roll. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: No personal information listed. |
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William P. Wyke |
Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 18; Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Butler Co.; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Blue; Complexion: Fair; Height: 5' 6". |
Not on muster-out roll indicates fate had not been determined at the close of the war, at which time these rolls were made out. Those who died before first battle probably were victims of typhoid fever that became rampant during the fall and winter of 1861/62 while the regiment was stationed at Minor's Hill, Va.
The Veteran Reserve Corps, originally called the Invalid Corps, was the military body to which soldiers were transferred when they were not healthy enough to be sent back to their original unit, but not sick or disabled enough to be sent home.
Bates, Samuel Penniman. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5. Volume III. Harrisburg: B. Singerly, state printer, 1869-71. -- available online through University of Michigan's Making of America series.
Digital Archives of the State of Pennsylvania. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866.
Under the Maltese cross, Antietam to Appomattox, the Loyal Uprising in Western Pennsylvania, 1861-1865; Campaigns 155th Pennsylvania Regiment, Narrated by the Rank and File. Pittsburg: The 155th Regimental Association, 1910. -- available online through the Historic Pittsburgh Full Text Collection.
Cline, J.A. Company "K," 155th Pa. Volunteer Zouaves: A Detailed History of Its Organization and Service to the Country during the Civil War from 1852 until the Collapse of the Rebellion, available through GoogleBooks.
All but one of the portraits on this page are courtesy of Will & Lynn Gorges' Civil War Battleground Antiques from a photo album once owned by Company D member John M. Watson. ALERT: THIS PHOTO ALBUM HAS BEEN STOLEN!
Most of the information about Private John Henderson was gathered from personal interviews with Robert Cree Duncan and Joseph R. Henderson. Information about his migration to College Springs, Iowa, was supplemented by information on a Web site maintained by Mike Patterson.
Additional information about Sergeant Samuel Crawford comes from his pension record and family records, courtesy of Ann Avery Hunter of Richmond, Virginia.
Portraits of and additional information about Sergeant William and Private Asa Hagerson, plus a letter written by William were provided by William's great-great-granddaughter, Mildred R. Loose. Her essay written for the Brady's Bend Historical Society Newspaper in 1994 has also been consulted.
Portrait and additional information about Private B. B. Sibert was provided by his great-granddaughter Denise Sibert.
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This page authored and maintained by John R. Henderson (jhenderson@ithaca.edu), Lodi, NY.
Last modified: 13 October 2009
John R. Henderson's grandfather, John G. Henderson, had an uncle,
John Henderson, a resident of Elders Ridge in Indiana County, who was a soldier in Company D.
URL: http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/pa62d/d.html
