47th Pennsylvania Volunteers

ONE CIVIL WAR REGIMENT'S STORY

  • Home
  • About the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
  • Start of the Rebellion
  • Letters Home and Diaries Kept
    • The 47th Pennsylvania’s Scribes
      • Henry D. Wharton – Journalist, Soldier and Public Servant
        • Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 11th Regiment-Sunbury Guards, April-July 1861)
          • Transcripts: Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 11th Regiment-Sunbury Guards, April-July, 1861)
        • Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-Sunbury Guards, September 1861 – October 1865)
          • Transcripts (1861): Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-Sunbury Guards, September 1861 – October 1865)
          • Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters, 1862 (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment)
            • Transcripts (1862): Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-Sunbury Guards, September 1861 – October 1865)
          • Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters, 1863 (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment)
            • Transcripts (1863): Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-Sunbury Guards, September 1861 – October 1865)
          • Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters, 1864 (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment)
            • Transcripts (1864): Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-Sunbury Guards, September 1861 – October 1865)
          • Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters, 1865 (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment)
            • Transcripts (1865): Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-Sunbury Guards, September 1861 – October 1865)
      • Sergeant John Gross Helfrich — Yearning for Peace While Fighting for Country, Cause and Honor
        • John G. Helfrich’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-January 1862 – December 1862)
          • Transcripts (1862): John Gross Helfrich’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-January 1862 – Spring 1864)
        • John G. Helfrich’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-February 1863 – November 1863)
          • Transcripts (1863): John Gross Helfrich’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-January 1862 – Spring 1864)
        • John G. Helfrich’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-May 1864)
          • Transcripts (1864): John Gross Helfrich’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-May 1864)
      • Henry J. Hornbeck — A Highly Esteemed Citizen
        • Transcripts: Henry J. Hornbeck’s Civil War Diary (47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, excerpts: 1862-Early 1864)
  • Key Battles, Transports and Duty Stations
    • Key General and Special Orders Issued to the Regiment and/or the Regiment’s Brigade or Division
    • Official Battle and Campaign Reports
      • Report of Major General George B. McClellan Upon the Organization of the Army of the Potomac and Its Campaigns in Virginia and Maryland (excerpt from the 1863 report covering the period of 1861-1862)
      • Reports on the Capture of Saint John’s Bluff, Florida and Related Events, Brigadier-General John M. Brannan (October 1862)
      • Reports on the Capture of Saint John’s Bluff and Related Events, Colonel Tilghman H. Good, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers (2-3 October 1862)
      • Report of 1st Lieutenant George H. Hill, 55th Pennsylvania Volunteers and Acting Signal Officer, Saint John’s River Expedition, Florida and Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina (1 November 1862)
      • Report of 2nd Lieutenant Franklin E. Town, 42nd New York Volunteers and Acting Signal Officer, Recapture of Jacksonville, Florida (13 October 1862)
      • Report of Lieutenant George W. Bacon, Aide-de-Camp, Capture of Confederate Steamer Governor Milton (30 December 1862)
      • Reports by Brigadier-General Joseph Finegan, Commanding, Confederate States Army, Department of Middle and East Florida, and Lieutenant Colonel Charles F. Hopkins Confederate States Army and Related Correspondence, Saint John’s Bluff, Florida (October-December 1862)
      • Reports, including Potocaligo Casualties, of Major-General Ormsby M. Mitchel, Commanding, U.S. Department of the South (22 and 24 October 1862)
      • Reports of Brigadier-General John M. Brannan, Commanding, Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina (24 October and 6 November 1862)
      • Reports of Tilghman H. Good, Acting Brigade Commander and Colonel Commanding, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers (24-25 October 1862)
      • Report of Brigadier-General Alfred H. Terry, Commanding, 2nd Brigade, U.S. Tenth Army Corps, Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina (3 November 1862)
      • Report of Colonel Louis Bell, Commanding, 4th New Hampshire Volunteers, Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina (24 October 1862)
      • Report of Colonel Richard White, Commanding, 55th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina (26 October 1862)
      • Red River Campaign Report, Major-General Nathaniel P. Banks (6 April 1865)
      • “Bailey’s Dam” Construction Report, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Bailey (17 May 1864)
      • Recollections of Major-General Philip H. Sheridan, Commanding, 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Virginia (10 August 1864 through early September 1864)
      • Recollections of Major-General Philip H. Sheridan, Commanding, 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Virginia (mid-September 1864 to 19 October 1864, including the Battles of Opequon, Fisher’s Hill and Cedar Creek)
    • Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
    • Camp Cadwalader, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Officers
    • Roster: Field and Staff Officers, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
      • Colonel Tilghman H. Good
      • The Honorable John Peter Shindel Gobin
      • Lieutenant-Colonel George Warren Alexander
      • Lieutenant-Colonel Charles William Abbott
      • Major William H. Gausler
      • The Fuller Family of Catasauqua — Leaders in War and Peace
      • Washington H. R. Hangen, First Lieutenant and Regimental Adjutant
        • Freedmen’s Bureau Reports of Washington H. R. Hangen, St. Tammany and Washington Parishes, Louisiana (November 1866-May 1867)
      • William M. Hendricks, First Lieutenant
        • William M. Hendricks (Part Two: Florida, Louisiana and Home)
        • What Happened to William Hendricks’ Family?
      • Washington Scott Johnston, First Lieutenant and Regimental Adjutant
      • First Lieutenant and Regimental Quartermaster William H. Ginkinger — A Good Son
      • Regimental Quartermaster Francis Z. Heebner — Everybody’s “Dad”
      • Regimental Quartermaster James Van Dyke, Sr. — An American Entrepreneur
      • Charles Bachman — From Pennsylvania Native to Neighborly Iowan
      • Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Charles H. Small
  • Medical
    • Roster: Surgeons and Other Medical Personnel, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
      • Lewis Harry Adler, Sr., M.D.
      • Elisha W. Baily, M.D. — Regimental Medical Director
      • William F. Reiber, M.D.
      • Assistant Regimental Surgeon Jacob Henry Scheetz, M.D. — A Surgeon of Remarkable Skill
      • John Young Shindel, M.D.
      • Samuel Burton Sturdevant, M.D. — A “Well Known and Successful Practitioner of Medicine”
    • Rosters of Wounded, Deceased and Sick Soldiers, 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
      • Roster of Wounded, Deceased and Sick Soldiers, 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (Surnames A to I, partial list)
      • Roster of Wounded, Deceased and Sick Soldiers, 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (Surnames J to R, partial list)
      • Roster of Wounded, Deceased and Sick Soldiers, 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (Surnames S to Z, partial list)
  • Regimental Band
    • Roster 1 — Regimental Band (47th Pennsylvania)
      • Professor Thomas Coates, Regimental Band Leader, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
      • Corporal William Henry Nagle, Musician 2nd Class
      • The Schwenzer/Schwentzer Brothers — Immigrants, Respected Artists and Beloved American Civic Leaders
      • Joseph Eugene Walter — From Medical Student to Musician to Machinist
      • Drum Major Daniel Lewis Dachrodt — The Last Member of the Regiment to Die
    • Roster 2 (partial) — Regimental Band (47th Pennsylvania)
      • Bush, Anton Benjamin (Band Leader and Private)
      • Musician Daniel H. Gackenbach — E-Flat Tuba Player and Successful Farmer
        • What Happened to the Family and Estate of Daniel H. Gackenbach?
      • The Sieger Brothers — Three Very Different Life Journeys
  • Company A
    • Roster: Company A, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
      • Captain Richard A. Graeffe
      • Private Michael Andrew, Sr. — A Widowed Father Goes to War
        • Michael Andrew, Sr.: Key U.S. Civil War Pension Records
      • First Lieutenant James F. Meyers—Just a Regular Guy Fighting to Save His Adopted Homeland
      • Private Daniel Battaglia — The Mental Cost of War
      • A Scorpion’s Target — Andrew Bellis
      • Eppler, Martin (Private)
      • Lewis Sponheimer — A Private and a Musician
      • Private George W. Hall
      • Private John G. Tag — A German Immigrant Who Fought to Save America’s Democratic Principles
      • Privates Edwin and William Schweitzer — Brothers-in-Arms in Search of Better Lives
        • William and Edwin Schweitzer and Family: Key U.S. Civil War Military and Pension Records
      • The Daub Brothers—Immigrants Who Fought to Preserve America’s Union
      • Private William Williamson — A Drummer Who Wasn’t a Boy
      • Bills, David K. (Private)
      • Breidinger, Samuel (Private)
      • Private Charles C. Detweiler — Exhausted by a Gunshot Wound
      • Private Nicholas Hoffman: From the Kingdom of Bavaria to Company A
        • Nicholas Hoffman and Elizabeth (Goodyear) Hoffman and Family: Key Personal and U.S. Civil War Military and Pension Records
      • Private Stephen J. Moyer — Faithful and Genial to the End
      • Schweitzer, Private John
  • Company B
    • Roster: Company B, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
      • Alfred Eisenbraun, Drummer Boy — The Regiment’s Second “Man” to Die
      • Captain Emanuel P. Rhoads (“E. P. Rhoads”)
      • Captain William H. Kleckner
      • Captain Edwin G. Minnich — A Brave Young Man Who Loved His Country More Than Life
        • Julia Ann Magill and George E. Minnich — A Civil War Widow and Her Fatherless, Young Son Struggle to Survive
        • Edwin and Julia Minnich: Key U.S. Civil War Military and Pension Records
      • Second Lieutenant Allen G. Balliet and Corporal Francis Sanders: From Brothers-in-Law to Battle Buddies
        • What Happened to the Families of Allen G. Balliet and Francis Sanders?
      • The Haltiman Brothers — Boatmen and Brothers-in-Arms
        • Haltiman and Hiskey Families: Key U.S. Civil War Military and Pension Records
      • The Hiskey Brothers of Company B
      • Sauerwein, Thomas Franklin (First Sergeant)
      • Corporal Aaron Fink: A Pennsylvania Shoemaker with Kansas Descendants
        • From Fink to Bornman and Beyond — A Civil War Widow and Fatherless Children Move On
        • Aaron Fink and Family: Key U.S. Civil War Military and Pension Records
      • Assenheimer, Godfrey (Private)
      • Private Milton Peter Cashner — An Honorable Man Incorrectly Labeled a Deserter
      • Reichart, Edmund O. (Private)
      • The Seislove Brothers of Company B
      • Private Abraham N. Wolf — Millwright and “Inventive Genius”
  • Company C: Color-Bearers
    • Roster: Company C, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
      • The Oyster Clan — A Captain and Brothers Courageous
      • First Lieutenant Christian Seiler Beard
      • First Lieutenant William Reese
      • Jared C. Brosious – Shoemaker and Soldier
      • The Haupt Brothers of Sunbury
        • Peter and Mary Haupt: Key U.S. Civil War Military and Pension Records
      • Private Charles L. Marshall (alias Thomas Lothard)
      • Second Lieutenant Jacob Knoebel Keefer — Pioneer Printer
      • Field Musician Samuel Hunter Pyers — A Drummer Boy Who Guarded President Lincoln’s Funeral Train
      • Sergeant William Pyers — Defender of the American Flag
        • William and Samuel Pyers and Family: Key U.S. Civil War Pension Records
      • Regimental Color-Bearer Benjamin F. Walls — The Oldest Man in the Entire Regiment
      • Sergeant John Bartlow — A Boatman Whose Journey in Life Was Cut Short
      • Correcting the Record — The Finck Brothers of Company C
      • Corporal George Kuder Hepler — Farmer’s Son, Wounded Soldier and Blacksmith
      • Corporal David Livingston Sloan: A Volunteer Fireman Who Helped End the Nation’s Most Devastating Firestorm
      • Corporal Timothy Matthias Snyder — A Patriot’s Great-Grandson and Telephone Pioneer’s Father
        • Corporal Timothy Matthias Snyder (Part Two: One Union Preserved, Another Shattered)
        • What Happened to the Wife and Children of Timothy Matthias Snyder?
          • Timothy Peter Snyder: A Life Cut Short
          • Nona Mae (Snyder) Albert: A Life of Faith and Fashion
          • H. Corrine Snyder: A Modest and Kind Mother Figure to Many
          • John Sylvester Snyder: Descended from Patriots
          • Catharine Rebecka (Snyder) Courtney: From Stenographer to Corporate Executive Secretary
          • Chester Hartranft Snyder, Sr.: From Ches to Bingo
          • Willard Emery Snyder — A Genunely Good Man
      • The First “Man” to Die — Drummer Boy John Boulton Young
        • What Happened to the Surviving Members of Boulty’s Family?
      • Private Samuel H. Billington — A Sheriff’s Son and Soldier
      • Private George W. Bortell (aka “George Bortle”)
      • John D. Colvin — Breaking Code to Preserve the Union
      • The Gardner Brothers of Wyoming County: Taken Too Soon
        • Jeremiah and Jasper B. Gardner: Key U.S. Civil War Pension Records
      • Private Alexander Given: Cabinetmaker and Civil War Casualty
        • Alexander and Nancy Given: Key U.S. Civil War Military and Pension Records
      • Private Joseph Berry Gray: A Public Servant Who Became the Last Surviving Civil War Veteran of His Community
      • Private Charles H. Harp — Boatman
      • Private Richard Walker Hill — A Pioneer in the “Wild, Wooly West”
      • Private George Dillwyn John — An Abolitionist’s Son Who Was a “Friend to All”
      • Private Thedore Kiehl: The Good Son
        • Theodore and Amelia Kiehl: Key U.S. Civil War Military and Pension Records
      • Private Michael F. Larkin — A Survivor of Hand-to-Hand Combat
      • Private Rafael Pérez: One Cuban Immigrant’s Story
      • Private H. B. Robinson: The Teenaged Warrior-Poet of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
      • The Walters Brothers — Bucolics Turned Patriots
      • Private Peter Wolf: Miller, Soldier and Mother’s Helper
        • Peter and Susan Wolf: Key U.S. Civil War Military and Pension Records
    • Duties of the Color-Guard
    • Joint Resolutions Relative to the Procuring of Standards for the Several Regiments of Pennsylvania
    • The Battle-Cry of Freedom (Rally ‘Round the Flag)
  • Company D
    • Roster: Company D, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
      • Captain Henry Durant (“H. D.”) Woodruff
      • Captain George Stroop – “A Splendid Citizen”
      • The Kosiers — Three Brothers Hope for Three-Year Terms
      • First Lieutenant Samuel S. Auchmuty — A Worthy Citizen
      • Second Lieutenant Jesse Meadath
      • First Sergeant James Crownover — A POW Who Survived
      • Sergeant John Garber Miller — From Prisoner of War to Post-War Teamster
      • Private Ephraim Clouser — One Soldier’s Suffering
      • The Brady Bunch of Company D (Privates)
      • The Fertig Brothers — Visible Scars of Valor
      • Sergeant Henry Heikel: An Old Susquehanna Boatman
      • Holt, Franklin M. (Sergeant)
      • Sergeant Alexander David Wilson — From Jail Keeper’s Son to Civil War Veteran
      • The Baltozers of Company D — Privates from Perry County with Leadership Potential
      • James Downs — From Private to POW to Corporal
      • The Harpers of Company D — Kin to a Captain
      • Private James McCroskey
      • Private William Alfred McKee — A Wagon Maker in the East Who Migrated West to Illinois
      • Corporal John E. L. Roth — A Sad End to a Veteran Volunteer
      • Corporal Cornelius Baskins Stewart — A First-Generation American Who Became a Boatman and Carpenter
      • Corporal James T. Williamson — A Soldier Who Reached Home and Died Among Friends
      • Private Peter Petre — Whose Surname Was Pronounced as “Petrie”
      • Private Amos Bender — A Reformed Soldier
      • Private Washington Alexander Power — A Colorado Mining Pioneer Whose Future Was Golden
      • Private Lewis William Blaine — From Pennsylvanian to Prosperous Iowan
      • Private Frederick Prothero — An Emigrant from Wales Who Became a Pennsylvanian
      • Samuel Raffensperger — One of the 47th Pennsylvania’s Teamsters
      • Private William H. Rhoads
      • Private John Lewellyn Clouser: A Railroader to the End
      • Private Ellis Shannon — A Tanner Turned Railroad Conductor
      • Private Joseph Benson Shaver — From Farmer to Soldier to Prominent Pastor
        • “Memorial Oration” by the Reverend Joseph Benson Shaver (30 May 1889)
      • Private Jerome Y. Small — Forever Young
      • Private George Washington Dill
      • Private William J. Smith — A Red River Campaign POW
      • Private William Earhart — A Marylander Who Fought for Pennsylvania
      • Private John Francis Egolf: A Survivor of Domestic Violence Who Protected His Mom
      • Ewing, William H. (Private)
      • The Four Foltz Men of Company D
      • Private John Deitzinger — A Victim of an Old “Camp Complaint”
      • Private George Washington Topley: A Tinner Who Lost His Hearing and Then His Life
      • Private John Alexander Humes — A Blacksmith by Trade
      • Private George Stein Isett
      • Private Harrison Jones — A Farmer’s Son Goes to War
      • Private Wesley M. White: A First-Generation, Irish-American Pennsylvanian Who Became a Nebraska Homesteader and Prosperous California Farmer
      • Jury, George Washington (Private)
      • The Keims — A Son Following His Father into War
      • Samuel M. Kern — POW and Private
      • Private Daniel S. Zook
      • Private George Washington Kochenderfer
      • Snyder, Emanuel (Private)
      • Private David C. Rose — A Pioneer and Leading Farmer of St. Joseph County, Indiana
  • Company E
    • Roster: Company E, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
      • Captain Charles Hickman Yard, Sr.
      • Second Lieutenant Edward W. Menner
      • First Lieutenant Lawrence Bonstine—From Blackened Record to U.S. Army Post Adjutant
      • Sergeant William Rockafellow — Peddling Fruits and Vegetables to Survive
      • Corporal Thomas Lowrey — A Miner Whose Sons Picked Slate
      • Private Edward Ludlow Clark, Sr.
      • Huber, David W. (Private)
      • The Kerkendall/Kirkendall Brothers – Comrades in War and Family Men
      • Private Jacob Tilghman Ochs — Laboring to Survive
      • Private Henry Rinek — A Rope Maker and Family Man
      • Private Joseph Slayer, “Dead Eye Dick” or “E. J. McMeeser”? The Most Mysterious of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers’ Mystery Men
      • Private Frank Simons — A German Immigrant Who Defended His Adopted Homeland
      • Private James Knox Polk Todd
      • Private Samuel Transue: A Brave Soldier and an Excellent, Honest and Industrious Workman
      • Private John Witz: A Teenage Casualty of War
        • John Witz and Family: Key Personal and U.S. Civil War Military and Pension Records
  • Company F
    • Roster: Company F, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
      • Captain Henry Samuel Harte — A Legacy of Hospitality
      • Captain Edwin Gilbert — A Soldier’s Soldier
      • William Hiram Bartholomew — Newspaperman and Leading Hotelier
      • The Eagle Brothers of Pennsylvania: Prussian Immigrants Who Called Catasauqua Home
        • What Happened to the Eagle Brothers and Their Families After the War?
      • The Lilly Brothers of Northampton County — Joseph, James and Harrison
      • Corporal James A. Ritter: A Stout, Healthy Man Felled by a Mosquito
        • James and Pauline Ritter: Key U.S. Civil War Military and Pension Records
      • Twists and Turns — The Tettemer Family’s Journey from New Jersey to Missouri — and Beyond
      • Private Godfrey Betz — A Württemberg Emigrant at Rest in Louisiana
      • Private William Franklin Hollenbach — Christened on the Fourth of July
      • Private William Herman: From Known Lehigh Valley Laborer to Unknown Union Army Casualty
        • William and Caroline Herman: Key Personal and U.S. Civil War Military and Pension Records
      • Heckman, Joseph (Private)
      • Lynn, Alfred (Private)
      • Private Lawrence McBride — An Immigrant Who Departed This World with Just Twenty-Five Cents to His Name
      • Griffin Reinert: A Life Changed by Chance Encounters
      • Private William Schuyler Reiser — From Farm Boy to Pioneer
      • Private John Weiss — From European Immigrant to American Civil War POW
        • John Weiss and Family: Key U.S. Civil War Military and Pension Records
      • Private John Worley: A German Immigrant Who Fought to Preserve the Union of His Adopted Homeland
        • John and Mary Worley: Key U.S. Civil War Military and Pension Records
  • Company G
    • Roster: Company G, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
      • Captain Charles Mickley – “War, the Chase and Liberty”
        • The Mickleys of Lehigh County – A Civil War-Era Family Mourns and Endures
      • Captain John Joseph Goebel — One Shoemaker’s Steps to Leadership
      • The Leisenring Family — Leading by Example
        • Anna Weiser Leisenring — An American Woman Who Was So Much More Than “Just” a Civil War Veteran’s Wife
      • First Lieutenant George W. Hunsberger — From Community Policing to Combat Leadership
      • Brevet Captain William Henry Steckel
      • Second Lieutenant Charles A. Henry — Felled By Asthma
      • The Hackman Brothers — Trading Blue Jackets for Blue Collars
      • Sergeant John W. Glick — From Farmer’s Son to Soldier to Pioneer
      • Sergeant John Pratt — Railroad Brakeman
      • Sergeant Jacob Peter Worman — A Shoemaker Who Stepped Up to Fight for His Nation
      • Corporal Solomon Becker — A Patriotic Soldier, Kind Father and an Exemplary Citizen
      • Corporal Horatio Nelson Coffin — A Slater Turned Soldier
      • Reily M. Fornwald – From Farmer to Railroader
      • Corporal Harrison Guth
      • Corporal William Hensler — A Brewer Turned Soldier
      • Corporal George Heppler
      • Corporal John Kneller — A Highly Respected Citizen with a Large Circle of Friends
      • Corporal Benjamin Franklin Swartz
      • Corporal Frederick Wilt
      • Corporal Allen D. Wolf — Wheelwright and Carriage Maker
      • First Defender and Field Musician James Henry Geidner, Sr. and Private Evan Geidner — A Hatmaker and His Nephew
      • William N. Smith — One of the Most Accomplished Drummers in Eastern Pennsylvania
      • The Barber Brothers — Scions of Iron (Part One)
        • The Barber Brothers — Scions of Iron (Part Two)
      • Private Jairus Bernhard — Forging a Future in Iron
      • Private Hiram Brobst: A Dentist Consumed by Fate
      • Private Joseph Clewell, Jr.: From Prisoner of War to Confederate Hospital Casualty
      • Private Alpheus Dech – From Soap Boiler to Soldier
      • Private Milton Addison Engelman — Pipe Maker
      • Private Ferdinand H. J. Fischer: An Emigrant from Frankenstein, Germany
      • Private Jonathan Heller: Cabinetmaker, Carpenter and Soldier
        • Jonathan Heller and Family: Key U.S. Civil War Military and Pension Records
      • Privates Levinus and Solomon Hillegass — Brothers in Arms
      • Private William H. Kramer
      • Private David Leibensperger — Girl Dad
      • Private George W. Lightfoot — Master Shoemaker
      • Private Benjamin S. Koons — A Plumber Whose Life Force Was Drained Away by Disease
      • Private Reuben Wetzel – A Split-Second Decision with Dire Consequences
      • Zeppenfeld, Henry (Private)
        • Henry Zeppenfeld and Family: Key U.S. Civil War Military and Pension Records
  • Company H
    • Roster: Company H, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
      • Captain James Kacy and Son (Corporal James Jones Kacy)
      • First Lieutenant William W. Geety — Battling Back from a Nearly Fatal Head Wound
      • Dependable Men: The Gardner Brothers of Perry County, Pennsylvania (part one)
        • Dependable Men: The Gardner Brothers of Perry County, Pennsylvania (part two)
      • From Brothers-in-Law to Brothers-in-Arms — Second Lieutenant Christian K. Breneman and Private George W. Zinn
      • First Sergeant David H. Smith: Keeper of the County Jail’s Keys
        • Document Gallery: U.S. Civil War Military Paperwork of First Sergeant David H. Smith
      • Corporal John H. Clemmens — Pummeling Confederates and Punching Tickets on “The Pennsy”
      • Daniel K. Reeder – A Lost Arm, a New Life
      • The Sweger Soldiers of Perry County — Cousins and Brothers-in-Arms
      • Private Valentine Andreas — A Brave Heart Stilled Too Soon
      • Private Luther Peter Bernheisel — A Successful Small Businessman and a Father of Civic Leaders
      • Private Alex Biger: Journeyman Tanner
      • Private Nicholas Orris—The Face of Another Unknown Soldier
      • Seeing Through a Soldier’s Eyes — The Life of Perry County’s Jerome Bryner
      • Campbell, Oliver (Private)
      • Private Daniel Fusselman — A Union Army Draftee Who Chose to Re-Enlist
      • Private Comley Idall — From Pleasant Sojourn to Despair
      • Private Robert McKibbin — A First-Generation American of Scottish Descent
      • Private Benjamin Missmer: A Nineteenth-Century Gardener Memorialized by His Descendant’s Twenty-First Century Garden
      • Private Edward Newman — A German Immigrant Defends the Union of His Adopted Homeland
      • The Battered Saylors and Sailors of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers and Their Baldwin Kin
  • Company I
    • Roster: Company I, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
      • Captain Coleman A. G. Keck — Touched by the Cold Hand of Death
      • Captain Theodore Mink — A Whaler and Warrior Who Ran Off to Join the Circus
      • Sergeant Thomas N. Burke – A First-Generation American Who Defended the Union Before Building a Life in Iowa
      • Sergeant Charles Nolf, Jr. – The Vagaries of War
      • The Fighting Fatzingers — Tilghman W. and Franklin George Washington Fatzinger
      • Private James B. Cole — A Prominent, Liberal Industrialist
      • Private John W. Diaz — Immigrant, Defender of the Union, and Successful Small Businessman
        • What Happened to the Family of John Diaz?
      • Private Edwin Dreisbach – The Heavy Heart of a Tinman
      • Private Tempest T. Draubaugh — From Teacher to Tubercular
      • Private William Ellis – The First Member of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers to Die in South Carolina
        • The Ellis Family – Survivors in a “World of Truth and Sorrow”
      • Private: Samuel A. Guth: Composing the News for Public Consumption
      • Private Charles E. Henry — A Veteran Who Was Helped by Government Assistance
      • Private Albert Hiller — A Sad Ending to a Short Life Filled with Upheaval
      • Private Sylvester McCape
      • Private William Mensch — A Strong Man Weakened by Disease
      • Private Samuel Noss: From 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer to Member of the Invalid Corps
      • Private Jacob Petre — From Germany to Easton, Pennsylvania
      • Private Jonas Snyder: A Powder Maker Buried at Sea
      • Private John H. Troell: A Brother Lost and Found
      • Private Thomas Ziegler — A Patriot’s Descendant and Forefather of Civic Leaders
  • Company K
    • Roster: Company K, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
      • Captain George Junker — Founder of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry’s “All-German Company”
        • What Happened to the Family of Captain George Junker?
      • First Lieutenant David K. Fetherolf — A Brave Man with an Impeccable Character
      • Second Lieutenant Elias Franklin Benner: From Enlisted Man to Commissioned Officer and Beyond
      • Second Lieutenant Alfred P. Swoyer — The Face of the Unknown Soldier
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Battle of Opequan – 19 September 1864

May25 by Laurie Snyder
Image of the victory of Philip Sheridan’s Union army over Jubal Early’s Confederate forces. Kurz & Allison, circa 1893. Public domain, courtesy of the Library of Congress: LC-DIG-pga-01855 (digital file from original print) LC-USZC4-1753 (color film copy transparency).

Image of the victory of Philip Sheridan’s Union army over Jubal Early’s Confederate forces. Kurz & Allison, circa 1893. Public domain, courtesy of the Library of Congress: LC-DIG-pga-01855 (digital file from original print) LC-USZC4-1753 (color film copy transparency).

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