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Surnames Beginning with J:

Jacobs, Unknown
Unknown Rank, Company C
Medical Status: Died during or after the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; originally buried on the grounds of Benjamin Cooley’s farm, his remains were exhumed and re-interred in section ten, grave no. 235 of the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia, according to burial ledgers for the Winchester National Cemetery; note: historian Lewis Schmidt stated theorized that this soldier may have been misidentified because his name didn’t appear on regimental rosters; the page of the burial ledger on which his name was entered alternates between members of the 46th and 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry regiments, possibly signaling that this man was a member of the 46th, rather than the 47th

Jackson, James Asa
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability at Davids Island Harbor, New York, 2 September 1865; died at the age of seventy-eight in Madisonville, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania and was interred at the Madisonville Union Cemetery

Jackson, William H.
Private, Company F
Medical Status: Possibly killed in action during the Battle of Opequan, Virginia, 19 September 1864; died 19 September 1864; burial location remains unidentified

Jacoby, Moses (alternate spelling of surname: Jacob)
Private, Company E
Medical Status: Wounded in the hand during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty with the regiment; mustered out with the regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; died at the age of seventy-six in Portland, Northampton County, Pennsylvania on 30 January 1916; interred at the Riverview Cemetery in Portland, Northampton County

John, George Dillwyn
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Wounded in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864 (may also have been captured by Confederate troops and held as a prisoner of war); died at the age of eighty-seven in Jordan Township, Whiteside County, Illinois, 3 March 1928, and was interred at the Penrose Friends Cemetery in Jordan Township, Whiteside County

Johnson, Cyrus
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Wounded in action during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 16 December 1862; applied for a U.S. Civil War Soldier’s Invalid Pension from Pennsylvania, 27 September 1888; burial location remains unidentified

Johnson, John
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Fell ill sometime in July 1864; diagnosed with typhoid, he was confined to the post hospital at Fortress Monroe, Virginia and died there, 27 July 1864; interred in section E, grave no. 761 at the Hampton National Cemetery in Hampton, Virginia

Jones, John J.
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 12 August 1862; burial location remains unidentified

Jones, John Lewis
Sergeant, Company F
Medical Status: Wounded in action and captured by Confederate forces during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 9 April 1864; was marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, and held there as a prisoner of war (POW), during which time he was promoted to the rank of corporal by his regiment, 18 September 1864; released during a prisoner exchange, 24 September 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment; was promoted to the rank of sergeant, 2 June 1865; mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania; died at the age of fifty-two in Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 20 July 1898, and was interred at the Grandview Cemetery in Southmont, Cambria County, Pennsylvania

Jones, W. Harrison
Private, Company D
Medical Status: Killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; interred at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia

Jordan, Anthony J. (alternate spelling of surname: Jourdan)
Private, Company D
Medical Status: Developed chronic myalgia while stationed with his regiment at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, Florida between late December 1862 and 10 April 1863 when he was discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability; re-enlisted with the same company as a private, 30 March 1864; reconnected with the regiment via a recruiting depot, 30 May 1864; mustered out with the regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania; received medical treatment at the U.S. National Home for Disabled Soldiers in Hampton, Virginia, 1910; died at the age of eighty or eighty-one in Pennsylvania, and was interred at the Cathedral Cemetery in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania

Junker, George
Company K
Medical Status: Mortally wounded by a minié ball fired from a Confederate rifle near the Frampton Plantation, during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; was transported to the Union Army’s general hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina, where he died from his wounds, 23 October 1862 (alternate death date: 25 October 1862); his remains were returned to the Lehigh Valley, and were interred at the Vine Street Cemetery in Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

 

Surnames Beginning with K:

Kacy, James Jones (alternate spelling of surname: Kacey)
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Discharged due to hearing loss, by Special Order No. 548, on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 29 July 1862; returned home to Pennsylvania; died from pneumonia in his early sixties in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 17 June 1905, and was interred at the Fernwood Cemetery in Lansdown, Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Kaucher, Charles
Private, Company I
Medical Status: Wounded in the left leg during the Battle of Sabine Cross Roads/Mansfield, Louisiana, 8 April 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment; was honorably discharged at Berryville, Virginia upon expiration of his three-year term of service, 18 September 1864; returned home to Pennsylvania; died at the age of seventy-one, 13 May 1902, and was interred at the Morgenland Cemetery in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

Keck, Coleman A. G.
Captain, Company I
Medical Status: Fell ill while the regiment was stationed in Florida; resigned his commission, 22 February 1864 due to disability, and was dead within two years, having succumbed to the ravages of liver disease, 23 January 1866; interred at the Union-West End Cemetery in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

Keen, William S.
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Fell ill with an unidentified fever while serving with his regiment during the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign across Virginia; was confined to a Union Army hospital at Winchester (most likely the Sheridan Field Hospital); died there, 1 November 1864; interred at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia; (note: the timing of his death suggests that he may have been wounded during Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864)

Keim, John M.
Private, Company H and, after re-enlisting, Company D
Medical Status: Discharged twice on surgeons’ certificates of disabilities—the first time while serving with Company H, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, the second while serving with Company D, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Either ill or injured, he was discharged from Camp Griffin, Virginia on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 19 January 1862, and was sent home to his family in Perry County, Pennsylvania; in 1863, at the age of forty-five, having recuperated from whatever illness or injury had plagued him during his time of service with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, he re-enlisted for another tour of duty; after re-enrolling at Bloomfield, Perry County on 26 November, he mustered in again the next day with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers but entered this time as a private with Company D; rejoined the regiment from a recruiting depot, 10 December 1863; discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability the second time from Berryville, Virginia, 4 September 1864; returned home to Pennsylvania; died in Newport, Perry County, 16 January 1888, and was interred at the Newport Cemetery in Newport

Keiser, Edwin
Sergeant, Company I
Medical Status: Fell ill with diarrhea, a condition that repeated and later turned chronic

Keiser, Emanuel Harrison
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Wounded in the thumb during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty; mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania; died at the age of fifty-five in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 28 March 1900, and was interred at the Paxtang Cemetery in Paxtang, Dauphin County

Keiser, George W.
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; originally buried at the farm of Benjamin or John Cooley in Virginia, his remains were exhumed and reinterred in section 10, grave no. 222 at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia; a cenotaph was also erected in his memory at the Sunbury Cemetery in Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania

Keiser, Uriah
Private, Unassigned Men
Medical Status: Fell ill during the Red River Campaign; was transported to New Orleans, where he was confined to the Union’s Barracks Hospital; died there in July 1864; interred at the Monument Cemetery in section 57, grave no.: 4477 (now the Chalmette National Cemetery) in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Kemmerer, Allen P. (alternate spelling of given name: Alan)
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Wounded slightly in both legs during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; returned home to Pennsylvania; died at the age of seventy-three in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, 6 October 1919, and was interred at the Highland Memorial Park Cemetery in Allentown

Kennedy, James
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Sustained gunshot fracture of the arm and gunshot wound to his side during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 9 April 1864; transported to the Union Army’s St. James Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, he died there from his battle wounds, 27 April 1864; burial location remains unidentified

Kennedy, William
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Fell ill; was ultimately transported to the Union Army’s Mower General Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for more advanced care; died there from phthisis, a chronic wasting away commonly associated with pulmonary tuberculosis, 25 May 1865; interred in section D, grave no. 255 at the Philadelphia National Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Kerchner, George
Private, Company F
Medical Status: Absent at the regiment’s final muster out at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865, due to illness, he had apparently been discharged from the regiment on 21 July 1864 after the mid-July Battle of Cool Spring at Snicker’s Gap, Virginia; according to this soldier’s entry in the Civil War Veterans’ Card File at the Pennsylvania State Archives, he was “Absent – Sick left the Company at Snicker’s Gap Va. 7-21-64 not heard from since. Supposed to be Dis. under G.O. #77 A.G.O. W.D. Series of 1865”; burial location remains unidentified

Kern, Samuel M.
Private, Company D
Medical Status: Wounded in action and captured by Confederate forces during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 9 April 1864; marched to Camp Ford near Tyler, Texas; died there as a prisoner of war (POW), 12 June 1864; initially buried at Camp Ford, his remains may have been exhumed, according to historian Lewis Schmidt, and were likely interred in an unknown grave at the Alexandria National Cemetery in Pineville, Louisiana; burial location remains unidentified

Kern, William
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Wounded in his left side during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; died at the Union’s general hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina, 23 October 1862 (alternate death information from historian Lewis Schmidt: died from wounds aboard ship, 23 October 1862; body buried at sea); burial location remains unidentified

Kiehl, Theodore
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Jaw shattered after being struck in the mouth by a rifle ball during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; recovered and returned to duty; killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; originally buried at Benjamin Cooley’s farm, his remains were exhumed and reinterred in section 10, grave no. 237 at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia

Kiefer, James M. (alternate spelling: Keifer)
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 15 April 1865 (note: the timing of his discharge suggests that he may have been wounded during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864); returned to Pennsylvania and then relocated to Atchison City, Atchison County, Kansas sometime after 1870; died from asthma-related complications in Colorado at the age of forty-three, 31 October 1881; his remains were returned to Kansas for interment at the Mount Vernon Cemetery in Atchison City

Killmore, George (alternate spellings of surname: Kilmer, Killmer)
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Sustained fatal gunshot wound to the abdomen during post-Battle of Berryville skirmish, nearly Berryville, Virginia, 5 September 1864; died at the 47th Pennsylvania’s regimental hospital near Berryville, 5 September 1864 (death certified by 47th Pennsylvania Regimental Surgeon William F. Reiber, M.D.); burial location remains unidentified

King, Charles (alternate spellings of surname: Koenig, König)
Private, Company F
Medical Status: Wounded in the arm during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; discharged 1 June 1865, by General Order, No. 53 that was issued by the U.S. Office of the Adjutant General, Washington, D.C.; may also have sustained a gunshot wound to his left shoulder sometime during his service tenure, or the Pocotaligo wound may have been to his left shoulder and not his arm; received treatment, recovered and returned to duty; honorably discharged, 1 June 1865; admitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Soldiers in Dayton, Ohio in later life, he died there at the age of seventy-five from general debility, in 1916; his remains were returned to Pennsylvania and interred at the Coplay Cemetery in Coplay, Lehigh County

Kingsborough, Robert Reid
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Wounded in action during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina; discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability 26 October 1862; died at the age of seventy-four in Saville Township, Perry County, 6 January 1908, and was interred at the Buffalo Cemetery in Ickesburg, Perry County

Kirkendall, Jacob M. (alternate spelling of surname: Kerkendall)
Private, Company E
Medical Status: Wounded three times; sustained a slight flesh wound, the first time, during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; wounded in action the second time during the Battle of Fisher’s Hill, Virginia, 22 September 1864; wounded the third time at or near Charlestown, Virginia, March 1865; discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability from the Union Army’s General Hospital at Cumberland, Maryland, 20 July 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania; died at the age of seventy-seven in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, 14 January 1922, and was interred at the Phillipsburg Cemetery in Phillipsburg, Warren County, New Jersey

Klein, George (alternate spelling of surname: Kline)
Private, Company F
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 16 April 1864; filed for a U.S. Civil War Soldier’s Invalid Pension, 20 November 1879; admitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers later in life; he died there, 17 April 1898; his remains were subsequently returned to Pennsylvania for interment at the Union West-End Cemetery in Allentown, Lehigh County

Kline, Henry (alternate spelling: Klein)
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Fell ill with dysentery while his regiment was stationed in South Carolina; when his condition turned chronic, he was confined to the Union Army’s General Hospital No. 5 in Beaufort, South Carolina, where he died from chronic dysentery, 8 September 1862 (alternate death date: 8 August 1862); interred in section 37, grave no. 4288 at the Beaufort National Cemetery in Beaufort, South Carolina

Klotz, David
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps (also known as the “invalid corps”), 1 March 1864; honorably discharged from the military, he returned home to Pennsylvania; died at the age of fifty-four in Weatherly, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, 1 January 1897; interred in plot 430 at the Union Cemetery in Weatherly

Klotz, Moses F.
Private, Company I
Medical Status: Sustained a fatal head wound during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; originally buried in the Presbyterian graveyard in Strasburg, Virginia, his remains were exhumed and reinterred in section 9, grave no. 188 at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia

Knappenberger, Jonas (alternate presentations of name: J. Knapenberger, Jacob Knappenberger, James Knappenberger, James Knappenberer)
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Killed in action at the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; his death as “James Knappenberger” was certified by the regiment’s Assistant Regimental Surgeon Jacob H. Scheetz, M.D.; burial location remains unidentified (but most likely was as an “Unknown” at the Beaufort National Cemetery in Beaufort, South Carolina, where multiple other casualties from the Battle of Pocotaligo were ultimately interred)

Knauss, Allen
Corporal, Company I
Medical Status: Sustained a gunshot wound to the right side of his face during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; received medical treatment and recovered enough to be discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 7 September 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania; died at the age of seventy-nine in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 19 December 1921, and was interred at the West Swamp Mennonite Cemetery in Quakertown, Bucks County

Knauss, Charles Henry (not to be confused with Private Henry Knauss of Company B)
Corporal, Company B
Medical Status: Wounded twice in battle as a private; wounded in action the first time, during the Battle of Opequan, 19 September 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty; wounded in action the second time during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty again; was promoted to the rank of corporal, 4 October 1865; mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; received his honorable discharge paperwork at Camp Cadwalader in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 9 January 1866; returned home to Pennsylvania after the war, but relocated west, in 1878, to Atchison, Kansas, and then relocated again, on 2 August 1886, to Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas, where he would stay for the remainder of his life; during the 1880s, he became a U.S. Postmaster in Atchison and then a justice of the peace; died at the age of seventy-nine in Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas on 14 July 1921, and was interred at the Fairview Cemetery in Elmer, Reno County

Knauss, Elwin (alternate spellings of surname: Kneuss, Knouse; alternate spellings of given name: Ellwin, Elvin)
Private, Company I
Medical Status: Fell ill with dysentery-diarrhea while serving with his regiment in Louisiana during the 1864 Red River Campaign; when his condition turned chronic, he was transported to New Orleans, where he was confined to the Union’s Marine Hospital. Died there from disease-related complications 3 August 1864. Interred in square 20, grave no. 55 at the Monument Cemetery (now the Chalmette National Cemetery in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. Notes: While his entry in the Civil War Veterans Card File at the Pennsylvania State Archives states that he died at this same hospital on 30 June 1864, his entry in the Union Army’s official Register of Deaths of Union Volunteers stated that he died on 3 August 1864.) Veteran Volunteer (re-enlisted 8 October 1863. Next of kin was identified in his burial ledger entry, in handwriting in red ink that is different from the handwriting in black ink that was used for his original ledger entry, as: “Mrs. S. Kneuss. Allentown, Lehigh Co. Pa.”

Knauss, Henry (not to be confused with Corporal Charles Henry Knauss of Company B)
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Wounded by an artillery shell fragment impact with his left shoulder during the Battle of Sabine Crossroads/Mansfield, Louisiana, 8 April 1864; received medical treatment and recovered, but was left with a partial disability; returned to duty; honorably discharged 18 September 1864, upon expiration of his term of service; returned home to Pennsylvania; died at the age of sixty-six in Allentown on 19 May 1893, and was interred in the soldiers’ plot at that city’s Union-West End Cemetery

Knell, Frederick (alternate spelling of surname: Knerr)
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Wounded in action during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 9 May 1863; burial location remains unidentified

Koch, Ambrose
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; burial location remains unidentified

Koehler, Frederick (alternate spellings: Koehler, Kohler, Köhler)
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Was likely the regiment’s first casualty during the Red River Campaign; while sitting in one of the side hatches of the steamship transporting the 47th Pennsylvania to Louisiana, he fell overboard from the ship as it was rounding into port at Algiers and drowned; members of the regiment reported seeing his body “come up astern of the boat,” and that someone had retrieved his cap, which carried the label “F. K.” on its vizier; researchers have not been able to determine whether or not this soldier was buried at sea, at a cemetery in Louisiana, or if his body was returned home for burial in Pennsylvania

Koffler, John
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 7 September 1863; burial location remains unidentified

Kohn, Myer (alternate surname spelling: Cohen)
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 12 August 1862; burial location remains unidentified

Kolb, Hiram (alternate spelling of surname: Kolp)
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Finger was shot off during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty; was seriously wounded in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; treated initially at field/regimental/post hospitals, he was sent north for more advanced care, ultimately settling at the Union Army hospital at York, Pennsylvania; deserted from that York hospital just over a month later, 27 November 1864; interred at Dinkey Memorial Cemetery, Lehighton, Carbon County, Pennsylvania

Kolb, John (alternate spelling of surname: Kolp)
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Contracted typhoid fever sometime in September or October 1864; died from typhoid fever and hemorrhoid-related complications at the Union Army’s Jarvis General Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, 21 October 1864; interred at the Loudon Park National Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland

Koons, Benjamin S.
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Fell ill with chronic liver congestion while his regiment was stationed near Summit Point, Virginia in April 1865; was discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 19 July 1865, at Charleston, South Carolina, less than six months after mustering in with the 47th Pennsylvania, due to a “liver complaint” and spine disease; died at the age of seventy-five in the city of Erie in Erie County, Pennsylvania, 21 March 1922; his remains were returned to Lehigh County for interment at the Union-West End Cemetery in Allentown

Kosier, Jesse (alternate spellings of surname: Kasier, Koser, Kozier, Krosier
Private, Company D
Medical Status: Fell seriously ill during the early days of Sheridan’s 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign across Virginia; transported to a Union Army field hospital in Sandy Hook, Maryland; diagnosed with pleurisy, he died there from complications related to that condition, 30 August 1864; initially buried in Weverton, Maryland, his remains were later exhumed and reinterred at the Antietam National Cemetery in Sharpsburg, Maryland

Kraft, Levi
Private, Company I
Medical Status: Discharged for disability on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 12 March 1864; admitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio in later life, he died there from gangrene at the age of eighty or eighty-one, 19 January 1891, and was interred at the Dayton National Cemetery (H, 23, 12) in Dayton

Kramer, Allen L.
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Wounded in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; received medical treatment; remained confined to a Union Army general hospital until he was honorably discharged, 26 May 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania; filed for a U.S. Civil War Soldier’s Invalid Pension, 22 February 1866; died during the 1870s and was interred at the Union-West End Cemetery in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; a U.S. Civil War Soldier’s Pension was filed on behalf of his minor children by the children’s guardian, M. E. Martin, 17 June 1878

Kramer, Cornelius
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Wounded in the leg during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 9 April 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment; mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania after the war, but later relocated to Kansas; died at the age of seventy-three in Marquette, McPherson County, Kansas, 21 October 1911, and was buried at the Excelsior Cemetery in Marquette

Kramer, Daniel Joseph
Private, Company I
Medical Status: Wounded in the leg during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment; discharged by General Order, 1 June 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania; died at the age of fifty-four in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, 16 December 1890, and was interred at that city’s Union-West End Cemetery

Kramer, George
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Fell ill with chronic diarrhea during the Red River Campaign; was likely confined to one of the Union Army’s general hospitals in Baton Rouge or New Orleans, Louisiana, or to a Union general hospital in Natchez, Mississippi; was placed aboard the Union’s hospital ship, the SS Mississippi; died aboard that ship on August 27, 1864 and was likely buried at sea or possibly at a still-unidentified cemetery in Louisiana or Mississippi; his name was included on the roster of soldiers listed on the Company C, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers’ Soldiers Monument that was erected at the Sunbury Cemetery in Sunbury, Pennsylvania

Kramer, Henry H.
Corporal, Company B
Medical Status: Wounded in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment; mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania; died on 4 August 1889; his index card in the Pennsylvania Department of Military Affairs’ collection, “Records of Burial Places of Veterans,” indicates that he was buried at the North Weissport Cemetery in Weissport, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, and that his grave remained unmarked as of 1935; however, a Find A Grave memorial was created for him (without a photo) indicating that he was interred in plot no. 102 at Saint Mark’s Cemetery, Plot 102 in Lehighton, Carbon County

Kramer, Isaac
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Sustained gunshot wound to the right arm during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; may also have been captured by Confederate forces and held as a prisoner of war (POW); discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 18 August 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania; was admitted later in life to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Leavenworth, Kansas for treatment of his former battle wound and cancer, 1 October 1904, he died there from a cerebral hemorrhage, 8 January 1922, and was interred at the Leavenworth National Cemetery (Plot: 31, 16/19) in Leavenworth, Kansas

Kramer, Lorenzo
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 3 March 1862; returned home to Pennsylvania; died at the age of forty-nine in Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, 25 July 1894, and was interred at the Shamokin Cemetery

Kramer, William H.
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Wounded slightly in both sides during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment; discharged by General Order, 1 June 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania, where he was employed by the Reading Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad (PR&R), and later became a member of the Allentown Borough Council; died two months shy of his eightieth birthday at his home in Emmaus, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, 17 April 1926, and was interred at the Greenwood Cemetery in Allentown

Krapf, Xaver
(alternate spellings of surname: Kraff, Krapf)
Private, Company I
Medical Status: Fell ill with diarrhea, a condition that repeated and later turned chronic; also developed eye disease

Krauss, Anthony (alternate spelling: Kraus)
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Developed chronic rheumatism during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; received medical treatment and returned to duty with his regiment; received treatment again at the Whitehall Hospital; discharged 18 September 1864 upon expiration of his term of service; admitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton, Ohio, 11 August 1876; developed jaundice while residing there; died there, 23 February 1884; interred at the Dayton National Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio

Kremell, John (alternate spelling: Kremmill)
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 28 October 1863; filed for a U.S. Civil War Soldier’s Invalid Pension, 19 December 1863; date of death and burial location remain unidentified

Kuhns, John Henry (alternate presentation of name: John J. Kuntz)
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Killed in action at the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; interred at the Beaufort National Cemetery in Beaufort, South Carolina

Kunfer, Samuel (alternate spellings of surname: Confer, Cunfer)
Sergeant, Company K
Medical Status: Wounded in action during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment; re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer at Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida, 20 October 1863; promoted to the rank of corporal, 9 September 1864, and to the rank of sergeant, 24 January 1865; mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; death date and burial location remain unidentified

Kunker, John
Private, Company E
Medical Status: Wounded in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; received care at the field/regimental hospital before being transferred to the U.S. Army’s hospital at Baltimore, Maryland; discharged from that hospital, 26 May 1865 (note: one source gives the date as 26 May 1865; another that he was recuperating in the hospital at the time his regiment was discharged from Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865, adding that he was discharged that same day, but from Baltimore); date of death and burial location remain unidentified

 

Surnames Beginning with L:

Labar, Leander
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania; was employed as a slate shaver, post-war, but died by suicide Northampton County, Pennsylvania in February 1880 from laudanum/opium poisoning, according to the U.S. government’s mortality schedules for that year; burial location remains unidentified (note: this may have been an opiate addiction-related death, signaling that this soldier may have either been physically injured or wounded during the war, or was suffering from “soldier’s heart”/post-traumatic stress disorder or another mental illness)

Lambert, Thomas F.
Corporal, Company F
Medical Status: Wounded in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment; was promoted to the rank of sergeant (date unknown) and to the rank of second lieutenant, 1 January 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania; died at the age of sixty-six in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 21 November, 1909, and was interred at the Hillside Cemetery and Memorial Gardens in Roslyn, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Landes, Abraham (alternate spelling of surname: Landis)
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Sustained a gunshot wound to his breast during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; was transported to the Union Army’s general hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina, where he died from his chest wound, 23 October 1862; initially buried near that hospital in Hilton Head, his remains were later exhumed and reinterred in section 37, grave no. 4285 at the Beaufort National Cemetery in Beaufort, South Carolina

Landis, William (alternate spelling of surname: Landes)
Corporal, Company K
Medical Status: Wounded in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment; promoted to the rank of sergeant, 1 October 1865; mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania; died at the age of eighty-one in Berks County, Pennsylvania, 26 September 1919, and was interred at Saint Paul’s Union Cemetery in Mertztown, Berks County

Landon, Lafayette K.
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 3 March 1862; returned home to Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, where he was employed as a laborer in 1863; death date and location remain unidentified; interred at the Sunbury Cemetery in Sunbury

Lantz, Samuel L.
Private, Company E
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 29 July 1862; returned home to Pennsylvania; died on Christmas Day, 1880, and was buried at the Easton Cemetery in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Larkin, Michael F. (alternate surname spelling: Larkins)
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Wounded in the side and hip (or arm and stomach) during hand-to-hand combat with a mounted Confederate officer during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; killed that Confederate officer and captured his horse; transported to the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina following the battle, he was recovered and was “able to be about,” at the regiment’s camp at Beaufort, South Carolina several weeks later, according to historian Lewis Schmidt; was honorably discharged at Charleston, South Carolina, 2 October 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania; filed for a U.S. Civil War Soldier’s Invalid Pension, 17 June 1880; relocated to Philadelphia sometime around 1880; died suddenly, 10 August 1921; interred in section D, lot 38-1/2, in the now-defunct Saint Patrick’s Cemetery at the corner of Schuylkill Avenue and Fourth Street in Pottsville

Lasker, Julius (alternate spelling: Lasher)
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia on 19 October 1864; originally buried at Benjamin Cooley’s farm in Virginia, his remains were exhumed and reinterred in section 10, grave no. 200 at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia

Lawall, Allen D.
First Lieutenant, Company I
Medical Status: According to an affidavit filed by Allen Lawall on behalf of the widow of Private William Radeline/Redline, both Lawall and Radeline fell ill with fever sometime around 10 October 1865 while serving on detached duty at Ball’s/Bull’s Plantation roughly six miles from Charleston, South Carolina. Lawall attributed their illness to “the area where we did said detached duty being a marshy & swampy place—and being entirely surrounded by swamps”; Lawall recovered, but Radeline/Redline, who had been confined to the U.S. Army’s Roper Hospital at Charleston, South Carolina, died at Roper Hospital from congestive intermittent fever, 25 October 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania; admitted later in life to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Soldiers in Johnson City, Tennessee and the U.S. National Home for Volunteer Soldiers in Hampton, Virginia, for multiple heart ailments, defective hearing, a double inguinal hernia, and hemorrhoids; died at the age of seventy-six or seventy-seven at the Soldiers’ Home in Hampton, Virginia, 12 October 1917; his remains were subsequently returned to Pennsylvania for interment at the Greenwood Cemetery in Allentown, Lehigh County

Lawrence Adam W.
Corporal, Company A
Medical Status: Injured or fell ill during or around the time of the Battle of Cedar Creek/Shenandoah Valley Campaign; was transferred 7 March 1865 to Company B, 10th Regiment, U.S. Veteran Reserve Corps (also known as the “Invalid Corps”), 7 March 1865; died 1 July 1876; interred at the Easton Cemetery, Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Leinberger, William (alternate spelling: Linebarger, Lineberger)
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Transferred to the U.S. Army’s Veteran Reserve Corps (also known as the “Invalid Corps”), Co. A, 1st Battalion, 21st Regiment, 28 April 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania; died there at the age of seventy-four, 28 February 1899, and was interred at the Union Cemetery in Slatington, Lehigh County

Lefler, Charles W. (alternate spelling of surname: Leffer, Leffler, Loffler)
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Sustained a rifle shot to his leg that was a through and through wound during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; received medical treatment and recovered without amputation; returned to duty with his regiment; honorably discharged, 14 June 1865; relocated west after the war and settled in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he founded a successful hat company; died there, 26 July 1914, and was interred at that city’s Crown Hill Cemetery

Lehr, Charles (alternate spelling: Lear)
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Fell ill with chronic diarrhea during the Red River Campaign; was confined to the Union Army’s hospital ship, the USS Laurel Hill, and was transported to the Union’s Natchez General Hospital in Natchez, Mississippi; died there, 22 July 1864; may have been interred in an unmarked/unknown grave at the Natchez National Cemetery

Leisenring, Martin
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Wounded in the right thigh at the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment; was sent home on a thirty-day furlough, 27 or 28 October 1863, as a reward for re-enrolling for another term of service; returned to duty; mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley; stricken with paralysis in January 1901, he was confined to the Allentown Hospital in Allentown, Lehigh County; died there, 16 January 1901; interred at that city’s Linden Street Cemetery

Leonard, George (see “Leonhard, George” below)

Leonhard, George (alternate spelling: Leonard)
Rank: Private, Company K
Medical Status: Contracted typhoid fever sometime during the month of March or April 1862, and was confined to the post hospital at Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida for treatment; died there from typhoid fever, 19 April 1862; initially buried at the fort’s post cemetery, his remains were exhumed in 1927 as part of the federal government’s reburial of Union soldiers at national cemeteries and reinterred at the Barrancas National Cemetery, Pensacola, Florida

Liddick, Jacob (1836-1906; shown on regimental rosters as “Liddick, Jacob 1st” or “Liddick, Jacob No. 1”)
Vital Statistics and Tenure of Service: Born in Pennsylvania, 24 October 1836, he was a son of Henry Liddick and Mary (Kilbreath Livingstone) Liddick; enlisted at the age of twenty-five; tenure of military service: 18 September 1861 – 25 December 1865; mustered out with regiment; died in Perry County, Pennsylvania, 4 December 1906; interred at Snyders Cemetery, New Bloomfield, Perry County
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Fell ill in December 1863; transported back to Pennsylvania, he was confined to the Union’s Satterlee General Hospital in Philadelphia; recovered and returned to duty with his regiment, 8 February 1864; fell ill again during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; confined to a Union Army hospital at Grand Ecore, 14 April 1864; subsequently moved to a Union hospital ship, he was transported to one of the Union’s general hospitals in New Orleans; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment in time to take part in Sheridan’s 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, during which time he sustained a minié ball shot to his right groin during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; severely injured as that minié ball traveled down into his right thigh, he received stabilizing medical care from regimental and division surgeons before he was transported back to Pennsylvania, where he was confined to the Union Army hospital in York and given more advanced treatment, beginning 26 October 1864; permitted to return to detached duty, 30 March 1865; mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; returned home to Perry County, Pennsylvania; ailing with mitral regurgitation, he died at the age of seventy in Perry County, 4 December 1906, and was interred at Snyders Cemetery in New Bloomfield, Perry County

Liddick, Jacob (1832-1897; shown on regimental rosters as “Liddick, Jacob, 2nd” or “Liddick, Jacob No. 2”)
Vital Statistics and Tenure of Service: Born in Perry County, Pennsylvania, 16 August 1832, he was a son of David Liddick and Catharine (Gamber) Liddick; enlisted at the age of thirty-five; tenure of service: 18 December 1863 – 25 December 1865; mustered out with regiment; died at the age of sixty-five in Perry County, 17 September 1897
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Wounded severely in the right arm during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment; mustered out with his regiment, 25 December 1865; returned home to Perry County, Pennsylvania, where he operated a dry goods business; died at the age of sixty-five in Perry County, 17 September 1897, and was interred at the Hill Church Cemetery in New Buffalo, Perry County

Liddick, John (circa 1833-1864; alternate spelling: Liddich; shown on regimental rosters as “Liddick, John 1st” or “Liddick, John No. 1”)
Vital Statistics and Tenure of Service: Born circa 1833; enlisted at the age of thirty; tenure of service: 16 December 1863 – 8 November 1864; wounded in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; died from wounds at a Union Army general hospital in Baltimore, 8 November 1864
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Wounded in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; received stabilizing medical care from regimental/division physicians and was then transported to a Union Army general hospital in Baltimore (possibly Jarvis Hospital, where multiple other members of the 47th Pennsylvania were sent for treatment); died from his wounds at that hospital, 8 November 1864, and was likely buried near that hospital initially and/or at the Loudon Park National Cemetery, where multiple other members of the 47th Pennsylvania who had died in Baltimore were buried

Liddick, John F. (1837-1919; alternate spelling: Liddich; shown as “Liddick, John 2nd” or “Liddick, John No. 2”, or as “Liddick, John 3rd” or “Liddick, John No. 3: on regimental rosters)
Vital Statistics and Tenure of Service: Born in Perry County, Pennsylvania, 29 November 1837, he was a son of Frederick Liddick and Elizabeth (Louden) Liddick, and was a brother of William Henry Liddick (1830-1886), who also served with the 47th Pennsylvania’s H Company; enlisted at the age of twenty-four; tenure of service: 29 August 1864 – 1 June 1865; mustered in for one-year term of service, discharged by General Orders No. 53; died at the age of eighty-one in Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania; interred at the First Methodist Cemetery in Lewistown
Rank: Private
Honors/Service Distinctions: Mustered in for one-year term of service; discharged by General Orders, No. 53 of the U.S. Office of the Adjutant General, Washington, D.C., 1 June 1865 (possibly because he was deemed no longer fit for duty)

Liddick, John H. (1842-1921; alternate spelling: Liddich; shown as “Liddick, John H.” on regimental rosters)
Vital Statistics and Tenure of Service: Born in Perry County, Pennsylvania, 18 January 1842, he was a son of Henry Liddick and Mary (Kilbreath Livingstone) Liddick; enlisted at the age of twenty-two; tenure of military service: 10 December 1863 – 25 December 1865; mustered out with regiment; died at the age of seventy-nine from heart and prostate disease in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, 6 May 1921; interred at the Flemington Cemetery in Flemington, Clinton County, Pennsylvania
Rank: Private
Honors/Service Distinctions: Mustered in for a three-year term of service, mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; (appears not to have suffered any illness or injury during his tenure of service, but is being listed on this roster to provide clarification regarding which H Company men  named “John Liddick” were wounded or treated for illness and which one was not)

* Note: Historian Lewis Schmidt reported that there were two men by the name of John Liddick/Liddich in the 47th Pennsylvania’s H Company who were wounded during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, adding that one of the two men died from his battle wounds, but the other—who was named “John D. Liddick”—was treated successfully for his battle wounds and survived. The Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans’ Card File that is maintained by the Pennsylvania State Archives confirms that there were three men by the name of John Liddick who served with Company H:

1. 1. Liddick, John 1st: Enrolled in Newport, Perry County, at the age of thirty, 16 December 1863; mustered in at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, 16 December 1863; wounded in the Battle of Cedar Creek, 19 October 1864; description: five feet, six inches tall, brown hair, blue eyes, sandy complexion; died from battle wounds in Baltimore, Maryland, 8 November 1864;
   2. Liddick, John 2nd and Liddick, John 3rd: Enrolled at Harrisburg, Dauphin County, at the age of twenty-four, 25 August 1864; mustered in at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, 29 August 1864; description: five feet, nine inches tall, light hair, brown eyes, fair complexion; discharged at Washington, D.C. by General Orders, No. 53, 1 June 1865; and
   3. Liddick, John H.: Enrolled at Newport, Perry County, at the age of twenty-two, 28 November 1863; mustered in at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, 10 December 1863; other than documenting this soldier as a younger man, no other physical description provided; mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865

Lick, John or Jonathan (surname may be misspelled)
Private, Company H:
Medical Status: This soldier was documented in the U.S. Registers of Deaths of Volunteers has having sustained a gunshot wound to the side of his head during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; transported to the Union’s Patterson Parl General Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, he died there from his head wound, 30 October 1864; however, there was no soldier by the name of “Jno. Lick” listed on the 47th Pennsylvania’s rosters, meaning that this soldier’s name was either misspelled on the death ledger, or that his company and/or regiment were misidentified; burial location remains unidentified

Lightfoot, George W.
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Transferred 25 April 1865 to Company I, 24th Regiment, U.S. Army’s Veteran Reserve Corps (also known as the “Invalid Corps”); mustered out, 8 May 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania; died at the age of sixty-four or sixty-five in Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania; interred at the Williamsport Cemetery in Williamsport

Lightman, John (alternate spellings: John, Jno.)
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Mustered in as a private with Company H of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, according to the Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans’ Card File maintained by the Pennsylvania State Archives; fell ill or was injured during Sheridan’s 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign (possibly wounded during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864, based on his death date’s proximity to that battle); transported to a Union Army general hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died there, 3 November 1864 (alternate death date: 11 November 1864); interred at the Philadelphia National Cemetery in Philadelphia, according to that cemetery’s burial ledgers

Lightner, Sterrett
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Fell ill during Sheridan’s 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign; diagnosed with typhoid fever, he was transported back to Pennsylvania, where he was confined to a Union Army hospital in that city; died there at that hospital, 3 November 1864, according to the U.S. Registers of Deaths of Volunteers and his U.S. Civil War Pension File (alternate death date: 3 December 1864, per Samuel P. Bates, History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5); interred at the Mount Moriah Cemetery in Philadelphia, a cenotaph was also created for him at the Hill Church Cemetery in New Buffalo, Perry County

Lilly, Harrison (alternate surname spelling: Lile)
Private, Company F
Medical Status: Attacked “by Guerrillas” near Summit Point, Virginia sometime around 25 March 1865, according to a regimental muster roll entry, he sustained a gunshot wound to the abdomen; taken to the regimental hospital for treatment near Summit Point, he died there from his wound, 29 March 1865 (alternate death date: 25 March 1865); originally buried at George Flag’s farm in Summit Point, his remains were later exhumed and reinterred in section 26, grave no. 1043 at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia

Lind, John Nicholas (alternate surname spelling: Lynn; nickname: “Jack”)
Private, Company E
Medical Status: Wounded severely in both legs during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; after receiving stabilizing medical care in the field from regimental physicians, he was transported to the Union Army’s general hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina, where he died from his wounds, 24 October 1862; interred in section 37, grave no. 4283 at the Beaufort National Cemetery in Beaufort, South Carolina; a cenotaph was also created for him at God’s Acre Cemetery in Schoeneck, Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Loeffler, Emanuel
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Wounded severely in the left hip/thigh during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment; mustered out with his regiment, 25 December 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley; died in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, 14 March 1911, and was interred at the Saint John’s UCC Church Cemetery in Mickleys, Lehigh County

Long, Amandus
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Contracted typhoid fever sometime during the month of March 1862 and was confined to the post hospital at Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida for treatment; died there from typhoid fever, 29 March 1862; initially interred at the fort’s post cemetery, his remains were exhumed in 1927 as part of the federal government’s reburial of Union soldiers at national cemeteries, but were mishandled and re-interred in a group grave with two hundred and eighty-seven other soldiers from Fort Taylor at the Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola, Florida; exact burial location remains unmarked/unidentified

Long, Daniel H.
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania; subsequently relocated west and settled in Guthrie, Oklahoma; admitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Leavenworth, Kansas in later life, he was diagnosed there with psychosis and described as senile and mentally incompetent in 1925; his wife was present at his bedside when he died at that Soldiers’ Home, 16 May 1925; interred at the Leavenworth National Cemetery

Long, John D.
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Wounded in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; received medical treatment and recovered enough to be discharged from Charleston, South Carolina on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 2 September 1865

Long, Solomon
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Contracted typhoid fever during the Red River Campaign; was transported to New Orleans, where he was confined to the Union’s Marine General Hospital; died there, 21 August 1864; was interred in square 14, grave no 15 of the Monument Cemetery (now section 60, grave no. 4728 of the Chalmette National Cemetery in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana). Notes: His death ledger entry in the U.S. Registers of Deaths of Volunteers documented that he died at the Marine General Hospital, but his burial ledger entry for Monument Cemetery indicated that he died at the “C’d Afrique” Hospital (the Corps d’Afrique Hospital operated by the U.S. Freedmen’s Bureau, which largely served as “a general hospital for the local black population,” according to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, but which reportedly was also used as “a special smallpox ward until its patients and those of the new Freedmen’s Hospital were moved into the vacant Marine Hospital”). The next of kin identified for him in his burial ledger entry, in handwriting in red ink that was different from the handwriting in black ink used for his original ledger entry, was: “James Kellen. Lehigh Co. Pa” (alternate spelling of surname: Hellen).

Losch, David (alternate spellings of surname: Lasch, Losch, Lost)
Private, Company I
Medical Status: Fell ill with typhoid fever and was confined to the 47th Pennsylvania’s regimental hospital at Camp Griffin, Virginia; died from Pneumonia Typhoides at Camp Griffin, 29 October 1861, according to his ledger entry in the Union Army’s official Register of Deaths of Union Volunteers, which was completed for this soldier by 47th Pennsylvania Medical Director Elisha W. Baily, M.D.; his remains were returned to Pennsylvania for interment at the Fairview Cemetery in Allentown

Lothard, Thomas (also known as “Marshall, Charles”)
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Sustained grapeshot wounds to his head and right side during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty; re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer at Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida, 11 October 1863; wounded in the top of his head, right side of his body, arm, and left shin during the Battle of Sabine Cross Roads, Mansfield, Louisiana, 8 April 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty; honorably discharged, 5 July 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania after the war and subsequently relocated west; filed for a U.S. Civil War Soldier’s Invalid Pension from Kansas, 2 June 1892; repeatedly admitted to, and discharged from, the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Leavenworth, Kansas; traveled to Indiana in October 1918 and was admitted, within a few short weeks of his arrival, to the U.S. Soldiers’ Home in Marion, Indiana, 23 October 1918; diagnosed with hypertension and cystitis, he died there, 31 October 1918; interred as “Charles L. Marshall” in section 4, row 9, grave no. 2716 at the Marion National Cemetery in Marion, Indiana (his federal burial ledger entry listed both his given name, “Charles L. Marshall,” and his alias “Thomas L. Lothard,” as well as his service with Company C of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers)

Louis, Joseph (alternate spelling of surname: Lewis)
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Sustained gunshot wound to the abdomen during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; received stabilizing medical care in the field from regimental physicians before being transported to the Union Army’s general hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina; died there from his wound, 23 October 1862; initially buried near the hospital, his remains were later exhumed during the federal government’s reburial of Union soldiers at national cemeteries and reinterred in section 37, grave no. 4279 at the Beaufort National Cemetery in Beaufort, South Carolina

Lupfer, Michael
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Fell ill while he was stationed with his regiment in Florida; diagnosed with chronic diarrhea and lower limb edema, he was transferred to the U.S. Army’s Veterans’ Reserve Corps (also known as the “Invalid Corps”), 164th Company, 2nd Battalion, 14 March 1864; discharged from the Union’s University Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, 5 August 1864, he was transported back to Perry County, Pennsylvania, where he died from his military service-related illnesses, 16 September 1864; interred at the Union Cemetery in New Bloomfield, Perry County

Lutz, James
Private, Company B, I
Medical Status: Transferred from the 47th Pennsylvania’s Company B to Company I, 16 April 1864; declared missing in action (MIA) and supposed dead during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; subsequently declared as killed in action; interred at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia

Lyddick, Adam (alternate spellings: Liddick, Lydick)
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Wounded severely above and below the knee during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; received medical treatment and recovered enough to be discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, after a lengthy convalescent period, 19 May 1865; returned home to Perry County, Pennsylvania; relocated west to Michigan, where he became a farmer and raised a family; filed for a U.S. Civil War Pension, 19 June 1880; paralyzed, November 1926; died at the age of seventy-nine in the village of Buchanan in Berrien County, Michigan, 12 December 1926, and was interred at the Portage Prairie Cemetery in Bertrand Township, Berrien County, 14 December 1926

Lynch, Michael C.
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability from Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida, due to disability, 30 June 1863; returned home to Pennsylvania; filed for a U.S. Civil War Soldier’s Invalid Pension from Pennsylvania, 29 September 1881; died at the age of forty-eight in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 25 January 1885, and was interred at that city’s Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery

Lyner, Peter (alternate spellings: Lyman, Lymer)
Corporal, Company E
Medical Status: Fell ill with chronic diarrhea while serving with the 47th Pennsylvania during the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign across Virginia; when his condition became chronic, he was transported to the Union’s Patterson Park General Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland; subsequently sent home on a sick furlough to Hokendauqua, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, he died there from pneumonia, 16 October 1864; burial location remains unidentified

Lynn, Alfred
Private, Company F
Medical Status: Sustained severe gunshot wound to his right leg during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; received stabilizing medical care before he was transported to a Union Army general hospital in Baltimore, Maryland (possibly Jarvis General Hospital, where other wounded members of the 47th Pennsylvania were taken for more advanced care); following medical treatment and a long period of convalescence, he recovered enough to be discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability from that Baltimore hospital, 14 October 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley; died there, 19 July 1900, and was interred at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua, Lehigh County (note: although historian Lewis Schmidt indicated that this soldier was wounded during the Battle of Sabine Crossroads, Louisiana, 8 April 1864, that was incorrect; Union Army records and subsequent newspaper accounts of this soldier’s injury confirm that he was wounded during the Battle of Cedar Creek)

Lynn, Andrew J.
Private, Company E
Medical Status: Was absent from muster rolls following his placement on the regiment’s sick rolls and subsequent confinement at the post hospital at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, beginning 16 July 1864; no discharge was given by the time his regiment mustered out at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; returned home to Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where he became well known as a violinist; died at the age of seventy-three at the boarding house where he lived in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, 13 April 1903, and was interred at the Easton Cemetery in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Lynn, John
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Drowned in the Mississippi River near New Orleans, Louisiana during the Red River Campaign, 30 May 1864; burial location remains unidentified (possibly buried at sea or in one of New Orleans’ city cemeteries)

 

Surnames Beginning with M:

Macherle, Edward H. (alternate spellings: Maeherle, Marchley)
Corporal, Company H
Medical Status:  Died from congestive fever at the Union Army’s post hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, 19 August 1865, according to the Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans’ Card File, which is maintained by the Pennsylvania State Archives; burial location remains unidentified

Madden, Daniel
Private, Unidentified Company (possibly Company G)
Medical Status: A “D. Madden” from Company G of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers was listed on the U.S. Army’s Register of Deaths of Volunteer Soldiers as having died from pneumonia as a prisoner of war (POW) at the Confederate States Army prison known as Andersonville in Andersonville, Georgia, 11 July 1864; however, there appears to have been no soldier by that name on the 47th Pennsylvania’s muster rolls (note: there was a soldier by the name of “Daniel Madden” who enrolled and mustered in at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania as a twenty-nine-year-old private with Company G of the 149th Pennsylvania Infantry who was captured by the Confederate Army, and died as a POW at Andersonville, 11 July 1864); researchers are continuing to try to clarify who this soldier was and where he died and was buried

Marshall, Charles (see “Lothard, Thomas” above)

Martin, Levi (alternate spelling: Guy)
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Fell ill with dysentery/diarrhea while serving with his regiment during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; when his condition deteriorated and became chronic during the early days of the subsequent 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign across Virginia, he was transported to Fortress Monroe in Virginia, where he was confined to the Fortress Monroe General Hospital; died there, 9 or 10 August 1864; interred in section E, grave no. 504 at the Hampton National Cemetery, Hampton, Virginia

Martin, William
Private, Company I
Medical Status: Wounded in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment; mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; burial location remains unidentified

Matter, Jacob (alternate spellings of surname: Harder, Madder)
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Sustained abdominal (stomach) wound during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina; initially reported as missing in action following the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 9 April 1864, his status was subsequently updated to “died of wounds” from that battle; his burial location remains unidentified (note: there was a “J. M.” interred at the Alexandria National Cemetery in Pineville, Louisiana whose memorial is listed in Find A Grave; researchers have not yet determined if this could be the gravesite of Jacob Matter or not)

Mathews, Edward (alternate spelling of surname: Matthews)
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Captured by Confederate forces during the Battle of Sabine Cross Roads/Mansfield, 8 April 1864; taken prisoner, he was marched to Camp Ford near Tyler, Texas (the largest Confederate prison west of the Mississippi River); held captive there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange, 22 July 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment; honorably discharged, 1 October 1865, upon expiration of his term of service; returned home to Pennsylvania and subsequently relocated west to Ohio; filed for a U.S. Civil War Soldier’s Invalid Pension from Ohio, 10 March 1884; in declining health in later years, he was admitted to the Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home in Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio and died there from cystitis at the age of seventy-five, 19 December 1922; he was laid to rest with military honors at the adjoining Ohio Veterans’ Home Cemetery, 21 December 1922; his widow, Laura, filed for a U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension from Ohio, June 1923

Maul, Adam
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Captured by Confederate forces during the Cane River Crossing of the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana, during/after the Battle of Cane River near Monett’s Ferry, 23 April 1864; was marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas (the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi) and held captive there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange, 22 July 1864; served on detached duty away from his unit, beginning 3 July 1865; honorably discharged when his regiment mustered out for the final time, 25 December 1865; burial location remains unidentified

Mayes, William (alternate spelling: Hayes, Mays)
Private, Company D
Medical Status: Fell ill with diarrhea during the opening days of the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; when his condition turned chronic, he was transported to New Orleans, where he was confined to the Union’s Barracks General Hospital; died there, 30 March 1864; interred at the Monument Cemetery (now grave no. 3945 of the Chalmette National Cemetery, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana)

McBride, Lawrence
Private, Company F
Medical Status: Fell ill with diarrhea while stationed with his regiment in South Carolina, 1862-1863 and also developed lumbago around this same time; received medical treatment and returned to duty; honorably mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; both conditions turned chronic, however, and he also developed stomach cancer; admitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton, Ohio in 1885, he died there, 16 September 1889; interred at the Dayton National Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio

McCalla, Daniel (alternate spellings: McCalley, McCullough)
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; originally buried at Benjamin Cooley’s farm, his remains were exhumed and reinterred in section 9, grave no. 178 at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia

McConnell, John 
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Killed in action near the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; interred at the Beaufort National Cemetery in Beaufort, South Carolina

McCoy, David
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Wounded slightly in the left arm during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment; re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, Florida, 19 October 1863; mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania; died at the age of fifty-three in Saville Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania, 27 August 1891, and was interred at the Eshcol Cemetery in Eshcol, Perry County

McCue, Philip
Private, Company F
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability at New Orleans, Louisiana, 7 July 1864; death and burial dates and locations remain unidentified

McEwen, Warren C.
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 7 December 1862; returned home to Pennsylvania, recovered and subsequently served with two additional (different) regiments; post-war, relocated to Ohio; died at the age of sixty-nine in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, 9 March 1909, and was interred in section C1 at the Forest Rose Cemetery in Lancaster, Fairfield County

McFarland, Patrick
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Described by historian Samuel P. Bates, author of History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, and in the Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans’ Card File, 1861-1866 that is maintained by the Pennsylvania State Archives, as a member of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry’s Company K who died while Company K was stationed at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, Florida, 16 September 1862—a date which does not match the 47th Pennsylvania’s known service record (the 47th Pennsylvania’s Company K was not stationed at Fort Jefferson until late December 1863); this soldier may not actually have been a member of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; as further support of this theory, 47th Pennsylvania Assistant Regimental Surgeon Jacob H. Scheetz, M.D., the physician who certified Patrick McFarland’s death at Fort Jefferson, noted in the army death ledger that McFarland was a member of Company C, “26 Inf.” at the time that he died from dysentery at Fort Jefferson, and that he died on 2 September 1863, not 2 September 1862; in addition, there appears to have been no “Patrick McFarland” listed in the known muster rolls for the 47th Pennsylvania or in the Registers of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865 (two collections that are also maintained by the Pennsylvania State Archives); this soldier was most likely first interred on the parade grounds of Fort Jefferson or at the fort’s post cemetery

McIntire, John (alternate spelling of surname: McIntyre)
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Wounded in action during the Battle of Sabine Cross Roads/Mansfield, Louisiana, 8 April 1864; recovered and returned to duty; killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; originally buried at Benjamin Cooley’s farm in Virginia, his remains were exhumed and reinterred in section 10, grave no. 207 at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia

McLaughlin, John
Private, Company E
Medical Status: Fell ill while serving at Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida; sent home to Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania to recuperate on sick furlough; died at home in Easton, 31 March 1865; interred at Saint Bernard’s Churchyard Cemetery in Easton

McMeeser/McNeeser (see “Slayer, Joseph”)

McNew, John W.
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Wounded in action and captured by Confederate forces during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 9 April 1864; was marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas (the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River), and held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange, 22 July 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment; mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania; employed as a railroad brakeman; while working as “a brakeman on the coke car which was being drawn by a mule” during a duty assignment “on the railroad at Glen White,” he “stuck his head out to look back” as “the car ran past a post which was standing but two inches from the edge of it”; he died instantly at the age of thirty-seven or thirty-eight, when his head was crushed between the railcar and the post, 10 September 1880; following a coroner’s inquest, which determined the circumstances of the accident and also noted that the deceased was an unmarried man who was a former resident of Juniata County, Pennsylvania, he was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in Altoona, Pennsylvania

Meeker, Alvin M.
Private, Company E
Medical Status: Reportedly deserted from either a Union Army general hospital in Frederick, Maryland or the Union’s Mower General Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 6 June 1865, or was mislabeled as a deserter because his regiment was incorrectly identified (there was another Alvin Meeker who served with a different Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry regiment); burial location remains unidentified

Mehaffie, Andrew (alternate spellings: Mehaffe, Mehaffee, Mehaffey)
Private, Company D
Medical Status: Wounded in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; received medical treatment, recovered, and was honorably discharged, 9 June 1865; returned home to Perry County, Pennsylvania; filed for a U.S. Civil War Soldier’s Invalid Pension from Pennsylvania, 8 June 1880; died at the age of seventy-two in Curwensville, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, 6 July 1917, and was interred at that town’s Oak Hill Cemetery; his widow, Isabella, filed for a U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension from Pennsylvania, 20 July 1917

Meierknecht, Conrad (alternate spelling: Meyerknecht)
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Contracted dysentery while his regiment was stationed in Charleston, South Carolina during the fall of 1865; was confined to the Union Army’s post hospital and died there from disease-related complications, 30 October 1865; initially interred in one of the city’s cemeteries, his remains were exhumed as part of the federal government’s reburial of Union soldiers at national cemeteries, and interred at the Florence National Cemetery in Florence, South Carolina

Mensch, William (alternate spellings of surname: Mench, Menich, Mensch)
Private, Company I
Medical Status: Contracted a pulmonary disease, along with dysentery or a similar disease that caused frequent bouts of diarrhea, while serving with his regiment during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; was hospitalized after repeatedly falling ill with diarrhea, a condition that quickly turned chronic, causing him to become emaciated and unfit to continuing serving with his regiment; honorably discharged from the Union Army’s Barracks General Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana on a surgeon’s certificate of disability on 14 July 1864, he was transported by ship to Pennsylvania and then by train to his home in Catasauqua, Lehigh County, where he died from disease-related complications, 20 November 1864

Mertz, Franklin Charles (“Frank”)
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Suffering from severe gangrene in his right leg, his leg was amputated “by Drs. Zern, Kutz and Reber, as the only means to save his life,” according to the 15 October 1892 edition of The Carbon Advocate in Lehighton, Pennsylvania, and described at that time as “may recover,” his right leg was amputated in Weissport, Pennsylvania, 21 October 1892, according to his admission ledger entry for the U.S. National Home for Disabled Soldiers; received follow-up medical care at the U.S. National Home for Disabled Soldiers in Los Angeles, California, beginning 23 May 1895; died there, 14 April 1904; funeral held 16 April; interred at the Los Angeles National Cemetery

Mertz, Jeremiah (alternate spelling: Metz)
Private, Company I
Medical Status: Killed in action near the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; interred at the Beaufort National Cemetery in Beaufort, South Carolina

Messinger, Joseph E.
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 10 June 1863; died at the age of twenty-three or twenty-four in Pennsylvania, 13 March 1865; interred at the Forks Cemetery in Stockertown, Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Metcalf, Isaac
Private, Company F
Medical Status:  Captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; he was transported to the Confederate prison camp near the town of Salisbury in Rowan County, North Carolina, where he fell ill while being held captive as a prisoner of war (POW); he died there from disease-related complications, 23 December 1864, according to the Office of the U.S. Quartermaster General, and was buried in an unmarked trench grave; his burial location remains unidentified (the precise location of Private Metcalf’s grave remains unknown because there were two cemeteries created for the Confederate Army’s Salisbury Prison Camp: 1.) a small “Lutheran Cemetery,” that was located roughly one hundred and fifty yards northwest of the North Carolina Railroad’s depot, which held an estimated one hundred bodies of Union soldiers; initially interred haphazardly in unmarked graves by Confederate Army soldiers, those bodies were later exhumed and reinterred by the U.S. government at the main Salisbury cemetery following the war; and 2.) Salisbury’s primary burial ground, which was located on a hill within one hundred yards of the North Carolina Railroad and roughly one-half mile southwest of Salisbury, and was the largest in terms of its half-acre land mass; the five thousand Union soldiers interred here—the equivalent of five regiments—were buried together, without coffins or identification—in thirteen unmarked trenches)

Metz, Jeremiah (see “Mertz, Jeremiah” above)

Metzger, Philip
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Fell ill, or was wounded in battle or otherwise injured during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; was discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 11 May 1864; returned home to Pennsylvania; suffering from heart disease and chronic rheumatism, he was admitted to the Soldiers’ Home in Erie County, Pennsylvania in 1890 and 1900, and was also admitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Soldiers in Hampton, Virginia during the 1890s; died in Erie, Pennsylvania, 2 February 1900, and was interred at that city’s Veterans Memorial Cemetery

Michael, Charles H.
Private, Company F
Medical Status: Captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; he was transported to the Confederate prison camp near the town of Salisbury in Rowan County, North Carolina, where he fell ill while being held captive as a prisoner of war (POW); he died there from starvation, 11 December 1864, according to the Office of the U.S. Quartermaster General, and was buried in an unmarked trench grave; his burial location remains unidentified (the precise location of Private Michael’s grave remains unknown because there were two cemeteries created for the Confederate Army’s Salisbury Prison Camp: 1.) a small “Lutheran Cemetery,” that was located roughly one hundred and fifty yards northwest of the North Carolina Railroad’s depot, which held an estimated one hundred bodies of Union soldiers; initially interred haphazardly in unmarked graves by Confederate Army soldiers, these bodies were later exhumed and reinterred by the U.S. government at the main Salisbury cemetery following the war; and 2.) Salisbury’s primary burial ground, which was located on a hill within one hundred yards of the North Carolina Railroad and roughly one-half mile southwest of Salisbury, and was the largest in terms of its half-acre land mass; the five thousand Union soldiers interred here—the equivalent of five regiments—were buried together, without coffins or identification—in thirteen unmarked trenches)

Mickley, Charles
Captain, Company G
Medical Status: Killed by a rifle ball to the head at the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 1862; Peter Wolf, the regiment’s suttler, arraned to have Captain Mickley’s remains sent home to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley for interment with military honors at the Union-West End Cemetery in Allentown

Mickley, John B.
Private, Company E
Medical Status: Fell seriously ill in April 1862, while stationed with his regiment at Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida; diagnosed with typhoid fever, he was confined to the fort’s post hospital, where he died, 30 April 1862; initially interred at the fort’s post cemetery, his remains were exhumed in 1927 as part of the federal government’s reburial of Union soldiers at national cemeteries, and were interred in section 17, grave no. 164 at the Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola, Florida 

Mildenberger, Francis J. (alternate spellings: Miltenberger, Mittenberger; alternate given name: Frank)
Sergeant, Company A
Medical Status: Injuries and illnesses directly related to his medical service included frozen feet and rheumatism; mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania and later relocated to New Jersey; filed for a U.S. Civil War Soldier’s Invalid Pension from New Jersey, 27 November 1889; resided in Phillipsburg, Warren County, New Jersey from at least 1870 until the time of his death there at the age of seventy-three in New Jersey, 1 December 1901; interred at the Phillipsburg Cemetery in Phillipsburg

Miller, George
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Wounded in action during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 9 April 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment; honorably discharged at Berryville, Virginia upon expiration of his term of service, 18 September 1864; returned home to Northumberland County, Pennsylvania; died in Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, September 1867, and was buried at that city’s Sunbury Cemetery

Miller, Jonathan
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Cause and date of death have not yet been determined (soldier was identified by his military headstone); interred in section 59, grave no. 4629 at the Monument Cemetery in New Orleans (now the Chalmette National Cemetery)

Miller, Joseph
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Captured by Confederate forces during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1865; held captive as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange, 12 April 1865; honorably discharged, 28 July 1865; died at the age of sixty-eight in Pennsylvania Furnace, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, 16 August 1887; interred at the Hays Cemetery in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Miller, Louis
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Wounded in both thighs during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; mustered out with regiment; transported to the Union Army’s general hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina, he received treatment there, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment; re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer at Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida, 27 October 1863; mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; admitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Soldiers in Dayton, Ohio, 4 October 1877; died there from phthisis pulmonalis, 29 July 1888; interred at the Dayton National Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio

Miller, Peter
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Fell ill with typhoid fever; transported to Washington, D.C., where he was confined to the Union’s Harewood Hospital; died there from typhoid fever, 27 October 1862; burial location remains unidentified

Miller, Thomas W.
Corporal, Company B
Medical Status: Sustained a chest wound during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864, which injured his left lung; received stabilizing medical care in the field before being transported to the 19th U.S. Army Corps’ division hospital near Winchester, Virginia (possibly the Sheridan Field Hospital); died there from battle wound-related complications, 25 October 1864; initially buried near that hospital or at the farm of “Charles Haight,” where other members of the regiment were interred, his remains were exhumed as part of the federal government’s reburial of Union soldiers in national cemeteries, and reinterred at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia

Minnich, Edwin George
Captain, Company B
Medical Status: Killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; originally interred at Charles Haigh’s farm (alternate spellings: Haighs, Haight), his remains were exhumed and reinterred in section 9, grave no. 162 at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia

Minnick, Samuel B.
Private, Company E
Medical Status: Killed in action mear the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; burial location remains unidentified

Missile, Valentine (surname spelling may be incorrect)
Term of Service: Unknown – 28 March 1864 (died from acute dysentery at Andersonville, the Confederate prison camp in Georgia)
Rank: Private
Honors/Service Distinctions: This soldier was documented in the U.S. Registers of Deaths of Volunteers has having been captured by Confederate troops and taken to the Andersonville prison camp in Georgia, where he fell ill with dysentery sometime during the winter of 1864 while being held there as a prisoner of war (POW); this same death ledger entry indicated that he died there from acute dysentery, while still being held captive, 28 March 1864; however, there was no soldier by the name of “Valentine Missile” listed on the 47th Pennsylvania’s rosters, meaning that his soldier’s name was either misspelled on the death ledger, or that his company and/or regiment were misidentified; there was a “Valentine Meisel“ who reportedly served with the 73rd Pennsylvania Volunteers, who was documented as having died at Andersonville on this same date

Missmer, Benjamin (alternate spellings: Messemer, Messmer, Messner, Missimer, Missmer)
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Fell ill with chronic diarrhea during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; initially treated at the 47th Pennsylvania’s regimental hospital, his condition worsened and he was transported to New Orleans, where he was confined to the Union’s St. Louis General Hospital; died there, 7 August 1864; interred in square 3, grave no. 89 at the Monument Cemetery (now section 49, grave no. 3874 at the Chalmette National Cemetery, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana). Note: Next of kin was identified in his burial ledger entry, in handwriting in red ink that is different from the handwriting in black ink that was used for his original ledger entry, as: “Saml Messmer. Catasuga. Lehigh Co. N.Y.” [sic. Catasauqua, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania]

Moll, William H.
Private, Company F:
Medical Status: Wounded in the left hip during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty; mustered out with regiment, 25 December 1865

Moser, Franklin
Private, Company E
Medical Status: Severely wounded in action during the Battle of Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; declared missing in action and “supposed dead” following the battle; burial location remains unidentified

Moser, Philip L.
Private, Company E
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 30 September 1863; died at the age of seventy-four, 10 January 1912, and was buried at the Staten Island Cemetery in West New Brighton, Richmond County New York

Moyer, Henry
Private, Company E
Medical Status: Absent from muster rolls following his sick status and confinement at Roper Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, beginning 8 July 1865; according to his entry in the Civil War Veterans’ Card File, Pennsylvania State Archives: “No discharge given with M.O.. of organization” (muster out of his regiment occurred in Charleston 25 December 1865)

Moyer, William H. (alternate spelling: Morse; shown on regimental rosters as “Moyer, W. H., 1st” or “Moyer, W. H. No. 1”)
Private, Company F
Medical Status: Captured by Confederate forces during or after the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia 19 October 1864, and was transported to the Confederate prison camp known as the Florence Stockade, near the town of Florence in Florence County, South Carolina, where he was held captive as a prisoner of war (POW); died there from starvation, 22 January 1865; interred in an unmarked grave, his remains now rest in a grave area at the Florence National Cemetery in Florence, South Carolina that contains the remains of one hundred and thirty other Union soldiers

Mullen, Patrick
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Sustained hip wound during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; died in Florida, 15 July 1863, according to historian Lewis H. Schmidt, or in Charleston, South Carolina, 15 July 1865, according to historian Samuel P. Bates in his History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, vol. 1, burial location remains unidentified

Muller, George
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 5 March 1862; death and burial dates and locations remain unidentified

Münch, Martin (alternate spellings: Muench, Munch)
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Fell ill with dysentery/diarrhea while stationed with his regiment at Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida; when his condition turned chronic, he was confined to the fort’s post hospital, but died there, 22 July 1863; initially interred in grave no. 40 at the fort’s post cemetery, his remains were exhumed in 1927 as part of the federal government’s reburial of Union soldiers at national cemeteries, but were mishandled and, instead, were reinterred in an unmarked grave at the Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola, Florida

Musser, Alexander
Term of Service: 31 August 1861 – 22 October 1862 (killed in action during the Battle of Pocotaligo)
Rank: Private
Honors/Service Distinctions: Killed in action near the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina 22 October 1862; burial location remains unidentified

 

Surnames Beginning with N:

Nagel, Conrad (alternate spellings: Nagle, Neihl, Niehl)
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Fell ill with dysentery/diarrhea while stationed with his regiment in Louisiana during the 1864 Red River Campaign and/or during the opening days of the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign across Virginia; when his condition turned chronic, he was transported to the Union’s Fairfax Seminary General Hospital near Alexandria, Virginia; died there, 23 August 1864; interred in grave no. 2593 at the Alexandria National Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia

Nagle, Jr., John J.
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Lost right finger

Neussler, Frederick (alternate spelling: Nessler)
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Fell ill with chronic dysentery while stationed at Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida; confined to the fort’s post hospital, died there from complications related to that disease, 20 August 1862 (death certified by E.S. Hoffman, regimental surgeon, 90th New York Volunteers); initially interred in grave no. 36 of the fort’s post cemetery, his remains were exhumed in 1927 as part of the federal government’s efforts to rebury all Union soldiers at national cemeteries, but were mishandled and reinterred in an unmarked grave at the Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola, Florida

Nolf, Jr., Charles
Sergeant, Company I
Medical Status: While out with his friends gathering shells near Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida on 9 June 1862, Sergeant Nolf was accidentally killed during a friendly fire incident in which he was shot through the brain by a member of the 90th New York Infantry who had, despite the prohibition on carrying loaded rifles, been carrying and inappropriately playing with his loaded gun; initially interred at the fort’s post cemetery, his remains were exhumed by Allentown, Pennsylvania undertaker Paul Balliet, and returned home to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley; Sergeant Nolf was then formally laid to rest with full military honors in section 9 of the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua, Lehigh County, February 1864

 

Surnames Beginning with O:

O’Brien Albert (alternate spellings: Bryan, O’Bryan)
Private, Company D
Medical Status: Fell seriously ill during December of 1864 or early January 1865; diagnosed with cerebrospinal meningitis, he was transported to the Union Army’s hospital at Camp Cadwalader in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he died from complications related to that disease, 24 January 1865; interred in section B, grave no. 591 at the Philadelphia National Cemetery in Philadelphia

O’Brien, John
Private, Company F
Medical Status: Sustained gunshot wound(s) to the face  during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; transported to the Union Army hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina, but died there from battle wound-related complications, 26 October 1862 (alternate death date: 27 October 1862); initially interred near that hospital, his remains were later exhumed and reinterred in section 27, grave no. 2620 at the Beaufort National Cemetery in Beaufort, South Carolina

Ochs, Jacob Tilghman
Private, Company E
Medical Status: Died by suicide in Pennsylvania at the age of forty-nine, 28 July 1884; interred at the Trinity United Church of Christ Cemetery in Freemansburg, Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Offhouse, William
Private, Company F
Medical Status: Sustained gunshot wound to left leg; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty; discharged 18 September 1864 upon expiration of initial term of service

Orris, Nicholas
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Killed in action during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 9 April 1864; burial location remains unidentified

Osterstock, Jacob (alternate presentation of name: “Jacob O. Stock”)
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Fell ill during the 1864 Red River Campaign; was transported to a Union Army hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; died from disease-related complications aboard the SS Mississippi, 30 June 1864; burial location remains unidentified (possibly the Baton Rouge National Cemetery, but more likely buried at sea)

Oyster, Daniel
Captain, Company C
Medical Status: Wounded twice in combat; sustained a gunshot wound to the left shoulder during a post-battle skirmish related to the Battle of Berryville, Virginia, 5 September 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty; sustained a second gunshot wound—this time to his right shoulder—during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty; mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; returned home to Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, where he initially was employed as a policeman, but left that job due to continuing health problems related to the battle wounds he had sustained; secured work with the U.S. Postal Service; admitted in later life to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Hampton, Virginia, he died there from complications related to arteriosclerosis, 5 August 1922; his remains were shipped to Arlington National Cemetery “by H. S. Cunningham Aug 6, 1922”; following funeral services, his was interred with full military honors in the officers’ section at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia

 

Surnames Beginning with P:

Packer, William (alternate spelling: Pucker)
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 5 March 1862; death and burial dates and locations remain unidentified

Pammer, Edwin (alternate spelling: Palmer)
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Fell ill with yellow fever while his regiment was stationed at Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida; confined to the fort’s post hospital, he died there from complications related to that disease, 27 August 1862; initially interred at the fort’s post cemetery, his remains were exhumed in 1927 as part of the federal government’s reburial of Union soldiers at national cemeteries, but were mishandled and reinterred in an unmarked grave at the Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola, Florida; burial location remains unidentified

Park, Francis A. (alternate first initial: L.; alternate surname spelling: Parks)
Sergeant, Company E
Medical Status: Killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia on 19 October 1864; originally buried at Benjamin Cooley’s Farm, his remains were exhumed and re-interred in section 10, grave no. 248 of the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia

Paulus, John (alternate spellings: Paules, Paulis; Jno.)
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Fell ill sometime during Sheridan’s 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign across Virginia during the mid to late fall of 1864; diagnosed as suffering from ansarca (generalized edema of the body) and chronic diarrhea, he was sent home on a sick furlough to convalesce; increasingly ill during that journey, he was sent to a transit hospital for treatment upon arriving in New York City, New York, and was then hospitalized at the Union’s Grant General Hospital at Willets Point, where he died, 4 November 1864; initially buried near that hospital the next day, his remains were later exhumed during the federal government’s reburial of Union army soldiers at national cemeteries, and reinterred in section 1, grave no. 21 41 at the Cypress Hills National Cemetery in Brooklyn Kings County, New York

Paxson, William
Private, Company E
Medical Status: Fell ill with chronic dysentery while stationed with his regiment in Florida; confined to the post hospital at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, Florida, he died there from disease-related complications, 18 October 1863; his death was certified by the 47th Pennsylvania’s Assistant Regimental Surgeon Jacob H. Scheetz, M.D.; likely buried at the fort’s post cemetery, his exact burial location remains unidentified

Peter, Aaron
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Developed organic heart disease while stationed with his company at Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida during the winter of 1863-1864; received treatment and returned to duty; mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; admitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Soldiers in Dayton, Ohio, 16 March 1880; died from heart disease there, 10 April 1880; interred at the Dayton National Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio, his military headstone was incorrectly carved with the wrong regiment number (as “67th” instead of “47th Pennsylvania”)

Petre, Jacob (alternate spellings: Peter, Petri, Petrie)
Private, Company I
Medical Status: Suffering from a hernia and heart disease, he was admitted, discharged from, and readmitted to various hospitals that were part of the network of U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers throughout his later life; died from mitral insufficiency at the National Soldiers’ Home in Hampton, Virginia, 28 January 1908; interred at the Hampton National Cemetery in Hampton, Virginia

Pfeiffer, Obadiah
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Severely wounded in the left leg during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; left leg was amputated; was discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability on 16 March 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley; died at the age of sixty-two in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, 13 June 1907, and was buried at that city’s Greenwood Cemetery

Powell, Jr., Daniel
Private, Company D
Medical Status: Killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; interred at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia (possibly in one of the graves of the unknown soldiers buried there)

Powell, Jr., John
Private, Company D
Medical Status: Fell ill with yellow fever while his regiment was stationed at Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida; confined to the fort’s post hospital, he died there from disease-related complications, 29 August 1862; initially interred at the fort’s post cemetery, his remains were exhumed in 1927 as part of the federal government’s reburial of Union soldiers at national cemeteries, but were later exhumed and reinterred at the Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola, Florida

Powell, Solomon
Private, Company D
Medical Status: May have been wounded in action; was captured during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 9 April 1864; died from his battle wounds at Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, either on the same day as the battle, or on 7 June 1864, while being held by Confederate troops as a prisoner of war (POW); his burial location remains unidentified; per historian Lewis Schmidt, “Privates Powell and Wantz were probably buried in a cemetery at Pleasant Hill, ‘at the rear of the brick building used for a hospital,’ and after the war reinterred at Alexandria National Cemetery at Pineville, Louisiana in unknown graves”

Pratt, John
Corporal, Company G
Medical Status: Wounded in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia on 19 October 1864; received medical treatment from Union Army physicians, recovered and was returned to active duty with his regiment

Price, Sr., John
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Mistakenly listed in the U.S. Registers of Deaths of Volunteers as having been killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864, this soldier was reportedly “the first man to fire a shot in that contest,” according to his 1904 obituary in The Allentown Morning Call newspaper; subsequently shot in the left arm during that battle, he was transported to a Union Army hospital behind the lines, where his arm was amputated “below the elbow,” per his obituary; following his recuperation, he was honorably discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 19 December 1864, and returned home to Pennsylvania; died at the age of sixty-seven or sixty-eight at his home in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, 8 February 1904 and was interred at the Saint Joseph’s Catholic Church Cemetery in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Pyers, William (alternate spellings: Piers, Pryer, Pryor)
Sergeant, Company C
Medical Status: Killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia on 19 October 1864, his death was witnessed by his son, Samuel Hunter Pyers, who served with his same company as a drummer boy; originally buried on the grounds of James Cooley’s farm, his remains were exhumed and re-interred in section nine, grave no. 193 of the Winchester National Cemetery, Winchester, Virginia

 

Surnames Beginning with Q:

Quinn, James
Private, Company E
Medical Status: Fell ill while his regiment was assigned to Reconstruction-related duties in Charleston, South Carolina during the fall and early winter of 1865; confined to a Union Army general hospital in Charleston, he died there, 7 December 1865; interred in section A, grave no. 72 at the Florence National Cemetery in Florence, South Carolina

 

Surnames Beginning with R:

Raymond, Jacob Haldeman
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Wounded in action during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty; re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer, 10 October 1863; reportedly deserted from Algiers, Louisiana, 11 July 1864, but was most likely hospitalized at that time and was not a deserter

Redline, William (alternate spelling: Radeline)
Private, Company I
Medical Status: According to an affidavit filed by First Lieutenant Allen Lawall on behalf of the widow of Private William Redline, both Lawall and Radeline fell ill with fever sometime around 10 October 1865 while serving on detached duty at Ball’s/Bull’s Plantation roughly six miles from Charleston, South Carolina; Lawall attributed their illness to “the area where we did said detached duty being a marshy & swampy place—and being entirely surrounded by swamps”; although Lawall recovered, Redline did not, and was confined to the U.S. Army’s Roper Hospital at Charleston, South Carolina; diagnosed with congestive intermittent fever, he died there, 25 October 1865; initially buried in one of that city’s cemeteries, his remains were later exhumed as part of the federal government’s reburial of Union soldiers at national cemeteries, and were interred at the Florence National Cemetery in Florence South Carolina

Reeder, Daniel K.
Corporal, Company H
Medical Status: Wounded in the arm during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; after receiving stabilizing medical care in the field, he was transported to the Union Army’s general hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina, where he received more advanced medical care; however, his injury was so severe that they had no other choice than to amputate his arm above the elbow, following a period of convalescence, he was honorably discharged from that hospital on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 24 November 1862; returned home to Perry County, Pennsylvania, where he filed for his U.S. Civil War Soldier’s Pension, March 1863; he then pursued further schooling; after completing several terms at the academy in Loysville, Perry County, he attended and graduated from the Eastman College at Poughkeepsie, New York, and became a teacher, but was forced to leave the profession after being felled by a serious attack of bronchitis; in 1866, he filed for and was awarded a U.S. patent on a corn sheller; a successful businessman and civic leader, he relocated with his family to Dover, Kent County, Delaware; as his health continued to deteriorate, his U.S. Civil War Pension was increased to fifty-five dollars per month; by 1903, his condition was described in military records as “Loss of arm above elbow, stump in such diseased condition as to prevent use of artificial limb”; also suffering from persistent bronchitis, he died in Dover Delaware, 2 January 1915, and was buried in section M, lot 260, grave no. 7 at the Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

Reel, Ferdinand (alternate spelling: Real)
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Fell ill while stationed with his regiment in Virginia, his health continued to decline as he developed pneumonia, prompting regimental physicians to confine him to the Union Army’s post hospital in City Point, Virginia; died there in Hopewell City, Virginia, 27 February 1865; interred in grave no. 265 at the City Point National Cemetery in City Point, Virginia

Reichart, Edmund O.
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Suffered injury to abdomen; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, 1 March 1864

Reinhard, Christian
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Developed chronic rheumatism as a direct result of his military service; mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; admitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio by 1872, he was treated there for chronic rheumatism of both legs, and continued to receive care as his health worsened over the years; additional complications included diseases of the heart and lungs and severe deafness in both ears; he died from chronic nephritis there, 21 August 1891; interred in section B9, grave no. 22 at the home’s adjoining soldiers’ cemetery

Reiser, G.
Rank and Company: Unknown
Medical Status: Killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia on 19 October 1864; originally buried on the grounds of Benjamin Cooley’s farm, according to the 1864 burial ledgers of the Winchester National Cemetery, his remains were exhumed and re-interred at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia

Remaly, Samuel
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Bates’ History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5 indicates that he was wounded during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October, and that he was “Absent, sick, at muster out”; a notation on his Find A Grave memorial confirms that he was wounded at Cedar Creek, and provides further details regarding his death, which show that he was later “Killed in a slate quarry near Seemsville” in East Allen Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania; died at the age of forty-five on 1 August 1888; interred at the Zion UCC Stone Church Cemetery in Kreidersville, Northampton County

Remmel, Jesse
Corporal, Company B
Medical Status: Fell ill with chronic diarrhea while stationed with his regiment at Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida, during the mid-late winter of 1863; confined to the post hospital at the fort for medical treatment, he died there, 29 March 1863; interred at the fort’s post cemetery, his remains may have been exhumed in 1927 as part of the federal government’s reburial of Union soldiers at national cemeteries, but mishandled and reinterred in an unmarrked grave at Fort Barrancas National Cemetery; exact burial location remains unidentified

Repsher, Joseph
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; originally buried near where he fell, his remains were exhumed and reinterred at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia

Resch, Charles (alternate spelling: Resk)
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Fell ill with diarrhea during the Red River Campaign; when his condition turned chronic, he was transported to Baton Rouge and confined to a Union Army general hospital; died there, 18 August 1864; interred in section 11, grave no. 629 at the Baton Rouge National Cemetery

Reynolds, George
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Sustained severe gunshot wound during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; received stabilizing medical care from regimental physicians in the field before being transported to the Union Army’s general hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina; died there from his wounds, 8 November 1862; initially buried near the hospital, his remains were exhumed as part of the federal government’s reburial of Union soldiers at national cemeteries, and reinterred at the Beaufort National Cemetery in Beaufort, South Carolina

Reynolds, Jesse
Private, Company D
Medical Status: Fell ill while stationed with his company at Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida, spring 1863; diagnosed with congestive fever; died there from disease-related complications, 11 May 1863; death was certified by 47th Pennsylvania Assistant Regimental Surgeon Jacob H. Scheetz, M.D.; was likely interred on the parade grounds at Fort Jefferson where other 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers were buried; exact burial location remains unidentified

Rhodes, Franklin (alternate spelling: Rhoads)
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; he was transported to the Confederate prison camp near the town of Salisbury in Rowan County, North Carolina, where he fell ill while being held captive as a prisoner of war (POW); he died there from disease-related complications, 22 November 1864, according to the Office of the U.S. Quartermaster General, and was buried in an unmarked trench grave; his burial location remains unidentified (the precise location of Private Rhodes’ grave remains unknown because there were two cemeteries created for the Confederate Army’s Salisbury Prison Camp: 1.) a small “Lutheran Cemetery,” that was located roughly one hundred and fifty yards northwest of the North Carolina Railroad’s depot, which held an estimated one hundred bodies of Union soldiers; initially interred haphazardly in unmarked graves by Confederate Army soldiers, these bodies were later exhumed and reinterred by the U.S. government at the main Salisbury cemetery following the war; and 2.) Salisbury’s primary burial ground, which was located on a hill within one hundred yards of the North Carolina Railroad and roughly one-half mile southwest of Salisbury, and was the largest in terms of its half-acre land mass; the five thousand Union soldiers interred here—the equivalent of five regiments—were buried together, without coffins or identification—in thirteen unmarked trenches)

Richter, Charles
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Fell ill, most likely due to dysentery, while stationed with his regiment in Virginia; developed severe diarrhea, prompting regimental physicians to have him transported to the Newton General Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland for more advanced care; died there from disease-related complications, 1 September 1864; interred in section A, grave no. 931 at the Loudon Park National Cemetery, Baltimore Maryland

Ridgeway, John (alternate spelling: Ridgway)
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Fell ill during the Red River Campaign; diagnosed with typhoid fever, he was transported to New Orleans, where he was confined to the University General Hospital; died there from typhoid fever, 30 July 1864; interred in section 57, grave no. 4475 at the Monument Cemetery in New Orleans (now the Chalmette National Cemetery)

Ritter, James
Private, Company F
Medical Status: Fell ill while stationed with his regiment in Florida during the fall of 1863; diagnosed with congestive fever (pernicious malaria), he was confined to the post hospital at Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Flordai; died there 23 October 186e; death from congestive fever was certified by 47th Pennsylvania Assistant Regimental Surgeon Jacob H. Scheetz, M.D. (Scheetz’s diagnosis was later supported by an affidavit filed 24 April 1865 by Captain Henry S. Harte, the commanding officer of F Company, stating that “James Ritter was a corporal in the said Company; that said Ritter became sick, was conveyed to the hospital at Fort Jefferson, Florida; and there died on or about October 30th, 1863, he the said Henry S. Harte being present at the time of his death; that the disease which caused his death was heart disease and diarrhoea, contracted while, in the line of duty, in the military service of the United States in said Co. F; and that the said decedent James Ritter was a stout, healthy man when he entered into such military service”; initially interred “the next day on East Key by Sgt. Hutcheson,” according to historian Lewis Schmidt, Corporal Ritter’s body was later exhumed and returned to Lehigh County on 28 January 1864  by Paul Balliet, an undertaker from Allentown who had made several trips to Florida to bring the remains of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantrymen back to the Keystone State for reburial; Corporal Ritter was subsequently laid to rest in Lehigh County on 30 January of that same year

Robinson, Jason T.
Alternate Given Names: James, Jason
Term of Service: 19 August 1861 – 22 October 1862 (killed in action during the Battle of Pocotaligo)
Rank: Private
Medical Status: Killed in action near the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; burial location remains unidentified

Robinson, William H.
Private, Company D, H
Medical Status: Fell ill while his regiment was stationed at Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida in 1862; diagnosed with typhoid fever, he was confined to the fort’s post hospital, where he died, 4 April 1862; initially interred in grave no. 5 at the fort’s post cemetery, his remains were exhumed in 1927 as part of the federal government’s reburial of Union soldiers at national cemeteries, and were reinterred in section 17, grave no. 102 at the Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola, Florida

Rodrock, Warren Alexander
Child of the Rev. William DeWitt Clinton Rodrock, Regimental Chaplain, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
Medical Status: Born in 1863 while the 47th Pennsylvania was stationed in Florida, this son of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers’ Regimental Chaplain died at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, Florida sometime during 1863 or during the first two months of 1864; his body was initially interred on the fort’s parade grounds; burial location remains unidentified/unmarked

Rose, George B.
Rank: Private, Company E
Medical Status: Killed in action near the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina 22 October 1862; burial location remains unidentified

Ross, John
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Died in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, 28 April 1865; burial location remains unidentified

Rufe, Charles
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Transferred to the 20th Regiment, U.S. Veteran Reserve Corps (also known as the “Invalid Corps”), 17 April 1865

Ruttman, Ernest (alternate spelling of surname; Shuster; alternate spelling of given name: Ernst)
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Wounded in action during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty; mustered out with regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865

 

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3. Civil War Veterans’ Card File (47th Pennsylvania Infantry, 1864). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
4. Gilbert, Randal B. A New Look at Camp Ford, Tyler Texas: The Largest Confederate Prison Camp West of the Mississippi River (3rd Edition). Tyler, Texas: The Smith County Historical Society, 2010.
5. “Lehigh’s Pension List” (includes a long list of veterans and their respective battle wounds, illnesses and/or service-related injuries). Allentown, Pennsylvania: The Allentown Democrat, 7 November 1883.
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