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Surnames Beginning with S:

Sanders, Francis (alternate spellings: Xander, Xandres)
Corporal, Company B
Medical Status: Wounded in action during the Battle of Sabine Cross Roads/Mansfield, Louisiana, 8 April 1864; died shortly after being carried to the rear of the Union Army’s lines by his brother; burial location remains unidentified; his death was documented in his widow’s 15 May 1916 newspaper obituary, which reported that Francis Sanders “enlisted in the Forty-seventh regiment and saw service for two enlistments until the battle of Sabine Cross Roads, La., where he was wounded and carried to the rear by his brother. From that day to this not a word was heard from him and the supposition was that he died from his wounds” and was likely interred in an unknown, unmarked grave

Sandt, Amandus
Corporal, Company A
Medical Status: Struck in the hip during the early fighting in the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864, he was carried to safety at the rear of the Union lines by his brother, Private Edwin Sandt, and other members of the regiment—several of whom reportedly were felled by fire from the attacking Confederate troops; upon reaching the rear, Corporal Sandt was then carried by his brother and the other surviving 47th Pennsylvania litter bearers to the cellar of a nearby house, where he was cared for by his brother until battle lines shifted, after which his brother was taken prisoner and marched off by Confederate troops; left behind by those Confederate soldiers, the critically wounded Corporal Amandus Sandt continued to fight for his life while awaiting rescue, which finally happened later that afternoon; following surgery at a Union Army field hospital to remove the bullet, and a lengthy convalescence under the care of Union physicians, Corporal Sandt was ultimately, honorably discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 3 July 1865; he died at the age of fifty-two in Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 25 July 1894, and was interred at the Easton Heights Cemetery in Easton, Northampton County Pennsylvania

Sandt, Edwin C.
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Escaped being wounded in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864, when the cartridge box he was wearing blocked a Confederate bullet from entering his body; however, his brother, Corporal Amandus Sandt (also of A Company), was struck in the hip by a bullet during this same engagement; in order to save his brother’s life, Private Edwin Sandt and other members of the 47th Pennsylvania helped to carry Corporal Sandt from the field to the rear of the Union’s lines while under Confederate fire; although several members of the litter group were felled by the enemy, Private Edwin Sandt and others survived, and were able to move Corporal Amandus Sandt to the safety of a cellar in a nearby house; Private Edwin Sandt then stayed with his brother, administering medical attention while the fighting raged around them until the battle lines shifted; at that point, Confederate troops captured the house where they were hiding; deeming Corporal Amandus Sandt too critically ill to move, the Confederate soldiers left him behind while taking Private Edwin Sandt prisoner; after being held initially as a prisoner of war (POW) at the Confederate Army’s Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, Private Edwin Sandt was then transferred to the notorious Confederate prison camp at Salisbury, North Carolina, where he was held as a POW until he was released during a prisoner exchange; after receiving medical treatment, he recovered and returned to his regiment, continuing to serve until the was mustered out at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; returned home to Pennsyvania; died at the age of fifty-three in Pennsylvania, 6 July 1901, and was interred at the Forks Cemetery in Northampton County

Savits, John
Corporal, Company A
Medical Status: Sustained a gunshot wound to the left thigh during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; transported to the Union’s Newton General Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, he died there from battle wound-related complications on 6 or 7 December 1864; interred in section A, grave no. 1190 at the Loudon Park National Cemetery in Baltimore

Savitz, Charles J.
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Finger was shot off 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, 10 October 1863; military reports indicating that he was absent without leave from 8 August 1864 until roughly 28 October 1864 were incorrect; his potential AWOL followed the 47th’s shipment north from Louisiana to take part in Sheridan’s 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign (with small skirmishes and major battles being waged during the fall of 1864, it is possible that poor Union records management failed to show he was away on duty or leave); listed in Samuel P. Bates’ History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5 as having deserted from Charleston, South Carolina, 6 September 1865, that charge was removed from his record because the charge was incorrect; his 1913 obituary indicated that he was honorably discharged, and that he was a respected member of his community, serving as a policeman following the war; interred at the Fairview Cemetery in Allentown, Pennsylvania

Schaffer, Hiram
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability from Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 19 September 1861

Schaffer, Reuben Moyer (alternate spellings: Schaeffer, Scheaffer, Shaffer)
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Reported as wounded in action during either the Battle of Sabine Cross Roads/Mansfield, 8 April 1864 or the Battle of Pleasant Hill, 9 April; was subsequently marched with his regiment to Grand Ecore; was reported in U.S. Army records to have died at Grand Ecore, 22 April 1864; however, he actually died during the forty-five-mile march toward Cloutierville, according to a letter subsequently written by his commanding officer, Captain James Kacy, to First Lieutenant William Wallace Geety, 29 May; was likely interred in an unknown, unmarked grave; his burial location remains unidentified

Scherer, August C. (not to be confused with Augustus Schirer of Company K)
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Sustained gunshot wound to the right thigh during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; transported to the Union Army’s Newton University General Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, he died there from wound-related complications, 28 October 1864; interred at the Loudon Park National Cemetery in Baltimore

Schimpf, John
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; his remains were returned home to the Lehigh Valley, and were interred at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua, Pennsylvania

Schimpf, Sr., John Gottlieb (alternate given name: Johannes)
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Developed chronic rheumatism while stationed with his regiment at Camp Griffin near Langley, Virginia during the winter of 1861; discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability from Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida, 4 March 1862; received medical treatment for rheumatism at the U.S. National Home for Disabled Soldiers in Dayton, Ohio, 1878

Schimpf, Jr., John
Rank: Private, Company K
Honors/Service Distinctions: Wounded in the thigh during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina 22 October 1862; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment; fell ill with diarrhea sometime during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana or during the opening weeks of Sheridan’s 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign across Virginia; when his condition turned chronic, he was sent back to Pennsylvania to recuperate, but died from chronic diarrhea at the “White Hall G.H. Bushkill Pa.” 11 September 1864 while still in service, according to the U.S. Registers of Deaths of Volunteers; he was buried somewhere in Pennsylvania, possibly in Bushkill, or in Hazelton, Luzerne County, which was listed as his place of residence at the time of his enlistment; his father, John Schimpf, Sr., filed for a U.S. Civil War Father’s Pension in 1866

Schirer, Augustus (alternate spelling: Shirer; not to be confused with August C. Scherer of Company B)
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Fell ill during the spring or summer of 1862 while his regiment was assigned to garrison and occupation duties in Florida and South Carolina; diagnosed with typhoid fever, he was confined to the post hospital at Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida, where he died, 5 August 1862; initially interred in grave no. 6 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 interred in an unmarked grave at the Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola, Florida

Schlagle, Henry J. (alternate spellings: Leaghlefle, Schlagel, Schlegel, Seahlegel, Slegel, Slegle)
Private, Company I
Medical Status: Captured by Confederate forces during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864, he was taken by forced march and train to North Carolina, where he was held captive as a prisoner of war (POW) at the Confederate Army’s prison camp in Rowan County, near the town of Salisbury; he died there from starvation and disease-related complications, including catarrh, 28 December 1864 (alternate death date: 27 December 1864), according to the Office of the U.S. Quartermaster General, and was buried in an unmarked trench grave (the precise location of Private Schlagle’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)

Schlu, Christian (alternate spellings: Schla, Schlea, Shlea)
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Fell ill with chronic diarrhea during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; was transported to New Orleans, where he was confined to the Marine Hospital; died there, 2 June 1864; interred in section 58, grave no. 4577 at the Monument Cemetery in New Orleans (now the Chalmette National Cemetery)

Schneck, Lewis (alternate spellings: Shneck, Sneck)
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; originally buried at the Presbyterian Cemetery in Strasburg, Virginia, his remains were exhumed and reinterred in section 10, grave. no. 221 at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia

Scholl, Edmund George (alternate spellings: Sholl; Edward, Edwd.)
Rank: Private, Company G
Medical Status: Died from typhoid fever and related complications at the Union Army’s post hospital Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida 18 May 1862. Initially interred at the post cemetery at Fort Taylor, his remains were exhumed in 1864 by Allentown undertaker Paul Balliet and returned to Pennsylvania for reinterment at that city’s Linden Street Cemetery

Schroder, Lucien (alternate spellings: Schröder, Schroeder; Lucian)
Private, Company F
Medical Status: Mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania and then relocated west, settling in Omaha, Nebraska; admitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Leavenworth, Kansas in 1917, he was diagnosed with arteriosclerosis, lateral spinal sclerosis, spastic paraplegia and “mental impairment”; died there from lateral spinal sclerosis, 5 October 1917; interred in section 33, row 8, grave no. 25 at the Leavenworth National Cemetery in Leavenworth

Schuchard, John
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Wounded 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 wounds, 24 October 1862; initially interred near that hospital, his remains were later exhumed during the federal government’s reburial of Union soldiers at national cemeteries; interred in section 37, grave no. 4280 at the Beaufort National Cemetery in Beaufort, South Carolina

Schwab, Joseph H.
Corporal, Private F
Medical Status: Sustained injury to abdomen; discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability at Washington, D.C.

Schweitzer, Gottlieb
Private, Company I
Medical Status: Contracted an eye disease, which affected both of his eyes

Schweitzer, John (alternate spellings of surname: Schweizer, Sweitzer)
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Captured by Confederate forces during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; held captive as a prisoner of war (POW) at a Confederate prison until he was released during a prisoner exchange in Wilmington, North Carolina, 2 March 1865; honorably discharged, 11 April 1865; death and burial dates and locations remain unidentified

Schweitzer, William (alternate surname spelling: Sweitzer; alternate given or middle name: Charles)
Corporal, Company A
Medical Status: Fell ill during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; was taken to the Union’s hospital ship, the USS Laurel Hill, which was docked near Morganza, and was hospitalized aboard that ship, 20 June 1864; diagnosed with typhoid fever, he died aboard ship four days later, 24 June 1864 (alternate death date: 23 June 1864); burial location remains unidentified

Schwenk, Charles M.
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Fell ill during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; diagnosed with typhoid fever, he was transported to Baton Rouge, where he was confined to a Union general hospital there; as his condition deteriorated, physicians determined that he had malignant typhoid fever; he subsequently died there at that hospital from malignant typhoid fever, 20 June 1864; he was then interred in section 8, grave no. 476 at the Baton Rouge National Cemetery, Baton Rouge, Illinois

Seibert, Benneville
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Although historian Samuel P. Bates indicated in his History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5 that Benneville Seibert mustered in with the 47th Pennsylvania on 2 October 1862 and deserted from the regiment at Easton, Pennsylvania on 18 April 1864 (while the 47th Pennsylvania was fighting its way across Louisiana as part of the Union’s Red River Campaign), these dates appear to be incorrect; according to the U.S. Veterans’ Schedule of 1890, which documented Civil War soldiers receiving U.S. Civil War Pensions, Seibert mustered in during May 1862, and mustered out nine months later in February 1863 due to disability (“Rheumatismus”); returned home to Pennsylvania; died at the age of fifty-nine or sixty in Coplay Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, 5 July 1904, and was buried at Saint Paul’s UCC Cemetery in Trexlertown, Lehigh County

Shaffer, Stephen
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Captured by Confederate forces during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864, he was taken by forced march and train to North Carolina, where he was held captive as a prisoner of war (POW) at the Confederate Army’s prison camp in Rowan County, near the town of Salisbury; he died there from starvation and disease-related complications, including catarrh, 8 January 1865, according to the Office of the U.S. Quartermaster General, and was buried in an unmarked trench grave (the precise location of Private Shaffer’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)

Shapley, Henry (alternate spellings: Shepley, Shipley)
Rank: Private
Medical Status: Captured by Confederate forces with Private Jacob C. Hochstetter during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; taken to Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia with Private Hochstetter, et. al.; confined there as a prisoner of war (POW) from 22 October until roughly 1 November 1864, he was then transferred with Private Hochstetter to the Confederate Army prison at Saliabury, North Carolina, where he (Private Shapley) died from starvation and hard treatment, 10 December 1864; Private Jacob C. Hochstetter subsequently provided an affidavit attesting to Private Shapley’s death cause, date and location for the Civil War Pension application filed by Private Shapley’s mother. Veteran Volunteer (re-enlisted on 19 October 1863)

Sheirer, Irvin or Erwin (alternate spelling: Scheirer)
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Contracted tuberculosis (consumption) while his company was stationed at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, Florida, and was confined to the fort’s post hospital; as his condition worsened, he developed “phthisis pulmonalis,” a chronic wasting away often associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; died there, 18 May 1863; his death was certified by 47th Pennsylvania Assistant Regimental Surgeon, Jacob H. Scheetz, M.D.; initially interred on the fort’s parade grounds, his burial location remains unidentified

Shelley, Joseph (alternate spelling: Shelly, Shully)
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia on 19 October 1864; originally interred at Benjamin Cooley’s farm, his remains were exhumed and reinterred in section 9, grave no. 167 at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia

Shull, Jacob (alternate spellings: Scholl, Sholl)
Private, Company F
Medical Status: Contracted Variola (smallpox) while stationed with his regiment in Florida or during the opening days of the 1864 Red River Campaign; diagnosed with smallpox, he was transported back to Pennsylvania, where he was confined to the Union’s Islington Lane General Hospital in Philadelphia; died there, 21 March 1864; interred in section B, grave no. 545 at the Philadelphia National Cemetery in Philadelphia

Sigmun, Marcus (alternate presentation of name: Sigmund Marcus)
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 6 July 1864

Small, Jerome Y.
Private, Company D
Medical Status: Killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; originally buried at the Lutheran graveyard in Newtown, Virginia, his remains were exhumed and reinterred in section 25, grave no. 988 at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia

Smith, Albert G.
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Developed rheumatism during his service with the 47th Pennsylvania; admitted in later life to the U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteers in Danville, Illinois and Leavenworth, Kansas he was treated for rheumatism, and died in his early seventies at the Soldiers’ Home in Leavenworth, 30 May 1914; interred in section 24, row 8, grave no. 9 at the Leavenworth National Cemetery in Leavenworth

Smith, Frederick
Private, Company D
Medical Status: Possibly wounded in action during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 9 April 1864; captured by Confederate States Army troops during that battle and marched one hundred and twenty-five miles to Camp Ford near Tyler, Texas (the largest Confederate prison west of the Mississippi River), where he was held captive as a prisoner of war (POW) until his death, 4 May 1864; burial location remains unidentified (possibly still on the grounds of the former Camp Ford)

Smith, George
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Fell ill while the regiment was stationed at Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida; was confined to the post hospital and diagnosed with typhoid fever; died there, 6 July 1862; initially buried at the fort’s cemetery, his remains were exhumed in 1927 as part of the federal government’s reburial of Union soldiers at federal cemeteries, but were mishandled in the transfer process, according to historian Lewis Schmidt; his remains now rest in an unmarked grave at the Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola, Florida

Smith, George H.
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Fell ill with bilious remittent fever while stationed at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, Florida in 1863; confined to the post hospital from 23-28 October, he recovered and returned to duty; fell ill with chronic diarrhea during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; was confined to the Union’s hospital ship, the USS Laurel Hill, and then transported to Natchez, Mississippi, where he was hospitalized at the Union’s Natchez General Hospital; died there, 9 July 1864; interred at the Natchez National Cemetery in Natchez

Smith, Henry
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Fell ill with chronic diarrhea during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; was transported to New Orleans, where he was confined to the Marine Hospital; died there, 30 May 1864; interred in section 51, grave no. 4522 at the Monument Cemetery in New Orleans (now the Chalmette National Cemetery)

Smith, Jeremiah
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Contracted dysentery while stationed in Beaufort, South Carolina with his regiment during the summer of 1862; as his condition worsened, he developed a fever and was confined to the Union Army’s General Hospital No. 3 in Beaufort; died there from disease-related complications, 8 August 1862; initially interred near the hospital, his remains were later exhumed during the federal government’s reburial of Union soldiers at national cemeteries, and were interred in section 37, grave no. 4286 at the Beaufort National Cemetery in Beaufort, South Carolina

Smith, Joseph
Private, Company B (not to be confused with Private Joseph Smith of Company H)
Medical Status: Fell ill during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; was transported to New Orleans, where he was confined to the Union’s Barracks General Hospital; died there, 2 September 1864; interred in section 60, grave no. 4768 at the Monument Cemetery in New Orleans (now the Chalmette National Cemetery)

Smith, Joseph
Private, Company H (not to be confused with Private Joseph Smith of Company B)
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 reinterred in section 10, grave no. 244 at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia; (alternate death information: fell ill or was injured near Cedar Creek, Virginia during Sheridan’s 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign; was confined to a Union Army hospital, possibly the Sheridan Field Hospital, and died there from disease related complications, 11 November 1864)

Smith, Thomas
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Developed chronic rheumatism while stationed with his regiment at Cedar Creek, Virginia during Sheridan’s 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign

Smith, William D.
Private, Company D
Medical Status: Developed asthma during his service with the 47th Pennsylvania; mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania; admitted to the U.S. Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio in 1883 as his asthma worsened; died there, 14 April 1887; interred in section F, row 17, grave no. 1 at the Dayton National Cemetery in Dayton

Smith, William J. 
Private, Company D
Medical Status: Received prior honorable discharge on a surgeon’s cetificate of disability on 23 December 1862, following the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, while serving with the 126th Pennsylvania Volunteers; received medical treatment from Union Army physicians after being released from captivity as a prisoner of war (POW) at Camp Ford, the largest Confederate prison west of the Mississippi River, on 22 July 1864, where he had been held since his capture in the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on 9 April 1864, while serving with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; was documented on the special 1890 federal census of Union veterans as suffering from scurvy, which was likely attributable to his military service

Snyder, Jonas
Private, Company I
Medical Status: Contracted tuberculosis (consumption) during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; became increasingly ill and died aboard the U.S. Steamer McClellan, 8 July 1864 while en route with his regiment to Fortress Monroe, Virginia; buried at sea, according to Company I First Lieutenant Levi Stuber’s affidavit that was filed on behalf of Jonas Snyder’s widow for her U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension application, which attested that Private Jonas Snyder was buried at sea during a ceremony aboard the McClellan

Snyder, Timothy M.
Corporal, Company C
Medical Status: Wounded in action, as a private, during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty; promoted to the rank of corporal, 1 September 1864; wounded in the knee during the Battle of Opequan, Virginia, 19 September 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty; mustered out with his regiment at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1864; suffered a heart attack and died at the age of forty-nine in Ashland, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 10 May 1889; interred at the Brock Cemetery in Ashland

Spinner, Henry D.
Private, Company I
Medical Status: Injured his  right knee during his service with the regiment; developed chronic, articular rheumatism, post-war, and received medical treatment at the U.S. National Home for Disabled Soldiers in Hampton, Virginia between 1908 and 1910

Stambaugh, Henry
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Killed in action at the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862, according to Assistant Regimental Surgeon Jacob H. Scheetz, M.D.; burial location remains unidentified (may still be buried in an unmarked grave near the town of Pocotaligo, or may have been buried at the Beaufort National Cemetery in Beaufort, South Carolina, where other members of the regiment who were killed at Pocotaligo were later interred)

Steffen, Thomas (alternate spelling of surname: Stevenson)
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Killed in action during the Battle of Opequan, Virginia (“Third Winchester”), 19 September 1864; interred at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia

Stephens, Joseph
Private, Company I
Medical Status: Killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; interred at the Winchester National Cemetery

Sterner, John C.
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Killed in action during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 9 April 1864; was interred, or a cenotaph was erected on his behalf, at Lantz’s Emmanuel Cemetery in Sunbury, Pennsylvania

Stick, Francis
Private, Company I
Medical Status: Fell ill with chronic diarrhea during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; was transported to New Orleans, where he was confined to the University General Hospital; died there, 10 June 1864; was interred in section 52, grave no. 4065 at the Monument Cemetery in New Orleans (now the Chalmette National Cemetery)

Stock, Jacob O. (see “Osterstock, Jacob”)

Stocker, Josiah Simon
Private Company A
Medical Status: Fell ill with dysentery during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; was transported to New Orleans, where he was confined to the University General Hospital; died there, 17 May 1864; was interred in section 7, grave no. 368 at the Baton Rouge National Cemetery

Straehley, Jeremiah (alternate spellings: Strackley, Strahle, Strahley)
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Fell ill with chronic diarrhea during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; was transported to New Orleans, where he was confined to a Union Army general hospital; died there, 14 May 1864; burial location remains unidentified

Stortz, Matthias
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 30 January 1865

Strauss, Paul (alternate spelling: Strause)
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Struck in the right shoulder and back by artillery shell fragments during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; 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 and later relocated to Maine; as his war wounds flared up during the 1870s and 1880s, he was admitted to, discharged from, and readmitted to U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Togus, Maine, Hampton, Virginia and Milwaukee, Wisconsin; died in his late seventies at the Soldiers’ Home in Togus, Maine, 8 September 1926; interred in section A, lot 49, grave no. 1 at the Albion Cemetery No. 4 in Albion, Maine

Stuart, Charles
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Captured by Confederate forces during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; held captive as a prisoner of war (POW) at a Confederate Army prison camp until he was released, 4 March 1865; received medical treatment from Union Army physicians; honorably discharged from Annapolis, Maryland, 29 May 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania and later relocated to Wisconsin; as the rheumatism that he developed during his military service worsened, he was admitted to, discharged from, and readmitted to U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Hampton, Virginia during the 1880s; he died in his early seventies at the Soldiers’ Home in Milwaukee, 24 November 1892; interred in section 10, grave no. 234 at the Wood National Cemetery in Milwaukee

Stuber, William
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability from Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida, 10 January 1863; death and burial locations and dates remain unidentified

Swinehart, Peter (alternate spelling: Sweinhart)
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Wounded in the thigh during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; transported to the Union Army’s Jarvis General Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, where he received care for his leg wound, which had required amputation at the thigh; died there from diptheria and battle wound-related complications, 1 December 1864; interred in section A, grave no. 164 at the Loudon Park National Cemetery in Baltimore; his name was also inscribed on the monument to the 47th Pennsylvania’s Company C at the Sunbury Cemetery in Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania

Swoyer, Alfred P.
Second Lieutenant, Company K
Medical Status: Killed instantly after being struck by a minié ball in the right temple during the Battle of Sabine Cross Roads/Mansfield, Louisiana, 8 April 1884; burial location remains unidentified

 

Surnames Beginning with T:

Tag, John G.
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Suffering from rheumatism since the late 1870s, he was admitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Leavenworth, Kansas, 11 October 1887; died there, 11 August 1897; interred in section 11, grave no. R13 2 at the Leavenworth National Cemetery in Leavenworth 

Tice, James
Private, Company B
Medical Status: 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. 208 at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia

Trabold, Jacob
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Fell ill with dysentery during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; died from disease-related complications at Morganza, 27 June 1864; burial location remains unidentified

 

Surnames Beginning with U and V:

Uhland, Franklin (surname spelling may be incorrect)
Private, Company G
Medical : This soldierStatus was documented in the U.S. Registers of Deaths of Volunteers as having sustained a gunshot wound during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina 22 October 1862; this same death ledger entry indicated that he was transported to the Union’s general hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina, where he died from battle wound-related complications 30 October 1862. There was no soldier by the name of “Franklin Uhland” listed on the 47th Pennsylvania’s rosters, however, meaning that this soldier’s name was either misspelled on the death ledger, or that his company and/or regiment were misidentified

Unangst, Enos
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 5 March 1862; died in Pennsylvania at the age of thirty-five, 14 February 1875, and was interred at the Belfast Union Cemetery in Belfast, Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Ungerer, Christian
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Developed chronic rheumatism as a direct result of his service with the 47th Pennsylvania; mustered out upon expiration of his term of service, 18 September 1864; returned home to Pennsylvania; developed heart and kidney ailments after the war, including mitral regurgitation and chronic nephritis; as his health continued to decline, he was admitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio in 1879; died there, 4 April 1907; interred at the Dayton National Cemetery (P, 24, 3) in Dayton, Ohio

 

Surnames Beginning with W:

Wagner, Albert
Private, Company E
Medical Status: Fractured his right knee cap during or after the war; admitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Soldiers in Dayton, Ohio during the 1880s; readmitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Soldiers in Hampton, Virginia, 1891; died 2 April 1891; interred at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Erie, Pennsylvania

Wagner, Samuel
Private, Company D
Medical Status: Wounded in action during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 9 April 1864, he was lost at sea while being transported for medical care aboard the USS Pocahontas when that steam transport foundered off of Cape May, New Jersey after colliding with the City of Bath, 1 June 1864

Wagoner, Jefferson
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Killed in action at Frampton’s Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862, his death was certified by 47th Pennsylvania Assistant Regimental Surgeon Jacob H. Scheetz, M.D.; burial location remains unidentified

Walbert, William S. (alternate spelling: Walberd)
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Fell ill with chronic diarrhea during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; was transported to New Orleans, where he was hospitalized at the Marine General Hospital; died there, 30 April 1864; burial location remains unidentified

Walk, Josiah
Corporal, Company F
Medical Status: Sustained gunshot wound to left side, as a private, during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty; promoted to the rank of corporal, 1 January 1865; mustered out with regiment, 25 December 1865

Wallace, William
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Fell ill with dysentery while stationed with his regiment in South Carolina during the summer of 1862; when his condition turned chronic, he was confined to the Union Army’s General Hospital No. 1 in Beaufort, South Carolina; died there from dysentery-related complications, 8 August 1862; burial location remains unidentified (note: this soldier was either a different William Wallace than the William M. Wallace (1833-1886; alternate birth year circa 1828) who served with the 47th Pennsylvania’s H Company, but survived the war, or this soldier was identified by the wrong given name/surname and/or regiment by the regimental surgeon who certfied his death)

Walls, Benjamin F.
Regimental Color-Bearer, Company C
Medical Status: Enlisted and mustered out as the oldest serving member of the 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; awarded the honor of serving as the Regimental Color-Bearer; responsible for carrying and protecting the First State Colors (the regiment’s American flag); wounded in action during the Battle of Pleasant Hill Louisiana, 9 April 1864 while attempting to mount the regimental colors on a captured piece of artillery; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty; applied for re-enlistment as the expiration of his original three-year term of enlistment approached, but was refused by a regimental physician for age-related reasons; honorably discharged at Berryville, Virginia, 18 September 1864; returned home to Juniata County, Pennsylvania; died there, 16 July 1867, and was buried at that county’s McWilliams Cemetery

Walters, Emanuel (alternate presentation of name: T. E. J. Walters)
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Fell ill during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; confined to a Union Army hospital near Franklin, Louisiana, 15 March 1864; received medical treatment, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment from June 1864 through June 1865; fell ill again—this time, while his regiment was assigned to Reconstruction-related duties in Charleston, South Carolina; confined to a Union Army hospital in Charleston, 8 July 1865; diagnosed with remittent fever and chronic diarrhea, he died there, 20 August 1865; interred in grave no. 24 at the Florence National Cemetery in Florence, South Carolina

Walters, James
Private, Unassigned Men
Medical Status: Fell ill during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; died 23 June 1864 (per historian Lewis Schmidt); death and burial locations remain unidentified

Wantz, Jonathan
Private, Company D
Medical Status: Possibly wounded in action during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 9 April 1864; captured by Confederate States Army troops during that battle, he was then held captive as a prisoner of war (POW) until he died at Pleasant Hill—either the same day or on 17 June 1864 while he was still being held as a POW by Confederate troops; 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”)

Warrick, David
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Absent, in hospital, at regiment’s final muster out at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 December 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania; filed for a U.S. Civil War Soldier’s Invalid Pension from Pennsylvania, 29 June 1885; a resident of Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1890, that year’s special veterans’ census indicated that he had sustained a fractured right leg during the war

Watson, George C.
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Fell seriously ill while his regiment was stationed at Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida, diagnosed with typhoid fever, he was confined to the fort’s post hospital, but died there, 26 August 1862; initially interred at the fort’s post cemetery, his remains were exhumed and reinterred at the Barrancas National Cemetery (24 0 401) in Pensacola, Florida

Watt, Frederick (alternate spelling of surname: Watts)
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Fell ill with measles and a cold while being transported with his regiment on the USS Oriental to Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida; hospitalized at the 47th Pennsylvania’s regimental hospital (also known at the time as the fort’s post hospital), he died there from pneumonia and brain fever, 13 February 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 reinterred in section 17, grave no. 92 at the Fort Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola, Florida

Watt, Michael (alternate given name: Mitchell)
Private, Company H
Medical Status: Discharged by General Orders, No. 154 to join the U.S. Artillery, 28 November 1862; died 13 April 1863 while serving with the U.S. Artillery; interred in section 15, grave no, 1156 at the Raleigh National Cemetery in Raleigh, North Carolina

Webster, John Eyres
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Fell ill with fever during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; was confined to a Union Army general hospital in Baton Rouge; died there from disease-related complications, 24 June 1864 (alternate death date: 21 June 1864); was interred in section 4, grave no. 190 at the Baton Rouge National Cemetery with a cenotaph erected for him by his family at the Old Saint David Church Cemetery in Wayne, Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Weisbach, Frederick C.
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Developed rheumatism during his service with the 47th Pennsylvania; as his condition worsened, he was admitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Hampton, Virginia; died there, 23 April 1894; interred in section D, grave no. 6911 at the Hampton National Cemetery in Hampton, Virginia

Weiss, John
Private, Company F
Medical Status: Wounded in action and captured by Confederate States Army troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 9 April 1864; was force marched or transported to Camp Ford near Tyler, Texas (the largest Confederate prison west of the Mississippi River), where he was held captive as a prisoner of war (POW) until his death, 15 July 1864; his burial location remains unidentified

Weiss, Reuben
Corporal, Company E
Medical Status: Sustained wounds to both legs during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862, including a gunshot wound to his left leg; 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; following a long period of medical treatment and recovery, he was honorably discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 4 April 1864; admitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteers in Hampton, Virginia, December 1884; subsequently discharged, he was later readmitted to that same soldiers’ home; died there at 1:30 a.m., 18 April 1900; interred in section C, grave no. 7924 at the Hampton National Cemetery in Hampton, Virginia

Werkheiser, Lewis (alternate spelling: Workheiser)
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; originally interred at Benjamin Cooley’s farm in Virginia, his remains were exhumed and reinterred in section 10, grave no. 224 of the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia

Wetzel, Reuben
Private, Company G
Medical Status: According to historian Lewis Schmidt, “Pvt. Reuben Wetzel, a forty-six-year-old cook in Capt. Mickley’s Company G,” climbed up on a horse that was pulling his company’s wagon while his regiment was engaged in a march from Fort Ethan Allen to Camp Griffin (both in Virginia) in October 1861; when the regiment arrived at a deep ditch, “the horses lost their footing and the wagon overturned and plunged into the ditch, with ‘the old man, wagon, and horses, under everything.’”; although alive when pulled from the wreckage, Private Wetzel had sustained a fractured tibia and succumbed to complications from the fracture and resulting amputation of his leg at the Union Hotel General Hospital in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., 17 November 1861; interred on the grounds of the Military Asylum Cemetery (now known as the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery), the location of a cottage that President Abraham Lincoln and his family frequented; burial records in the possession of staff charged with maintaining Lincoln’s cottage document Reuben’s interment

Wieand, Benjamin (alternate spelling of surname: Weiand; alternate given name: Benneville; nickname: Ben)
Private, Company B, D
Medical Status: Twice wounded in action; wounded the first time 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 in 1863; transferred to Company D, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 15 December 1863; wounded in action the second time, he was captured by Confederate forces during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 9 April 1864; held captive as a prisoner of war (POW) at Camp Ford near Tyler, Texas (the largest Confederate prison west of the Mississippi River); released during a prisoner exchange; honorably discharged, 21 July 1865; originally interred at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Philadelphia in 1901, his remains were exhumed and reinterred at the Lawnview Cemetery in Rockledge, Montgomery County when the City of Philadelphia purchased the property in order to create the Raymond Rosen Housing Development

Wieand, John L. (alternate spelling of surname: Weiand)
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Wounded in the leg during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862; transported to the Union Army’s general hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina, where his leg was amputated; discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 3 December 1862; died at the age of fifty in Pennsylvania, 15 February 1865; interred at the Union-West End Cemetery in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

Wildman, William (surname spelling may be incorrect)
Private, Company C
Medical Status: This soldier was documented in the U.S. Registers of Deaths of Volunteers has having fallen ill with acute diarrhea sometime during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; this same death ledger entry indicated that he was confined to the 47th Pennsylvania’s regimental hospital in Louisiana and died there from acute dysentery, 29 May 1864; his death was certified by the 47th Pennsylvania’s Medical Director, Regimental Surgeon Elisha W. Baily, M.D.; there was no soldier by the name of “William Wildman” listed on the 47th Pennsylvania’s rosters, however, 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

Wile, William F. (surname spelling may be incorrect)
Private, Company A
Medical Status: This soldier was documented in the U.S. Registers of Deaths of Volunteers has having fallen ill with Variola (smallpox) sometime during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; this same death ledger entry indicated that he was confined to the Barracks Hospital in New Orleans and died there from smallpox, 10 May 1864, however, there was no soldier by the name of “William Wile” 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

Will, John E.
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864; originally interred at Benjamin or John Cooley’s farm in Virginia, his remains were exhumed and reinterred in section 17, grave no. 587 at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia

Williamson, F.
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Absent, sick at the regiment’s final muster out, 25 December 1865

Williamson, Jacob
Private, Company A
Medical Status: Fell ill with typhoid fever during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; was transported to Baton Rouge, where he was confined to the Union’s Baton Rouge General Hospital; died there from malignant typhoid fever, 13 July 1864; interred in section 9, grave no. 500 at the Baton Rouge National Cemetery

Williamson, James Thomas (“J. T.” or “Tom”)
Corporal, Company D
Medical Status: Fell ill, possibly with dysentery, an intermittent fever variant or typhoid fever while his regiment was stationed in Beaufort, South Carolina during the summer of 1862. Became so frail that he was unable to perform his duties, was deemed unfit to continue serving by regimental physicians and was honorably discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, 5 August 1862. Subsequently died at home in Perry County, Pennsylvania on 29 August and was interred at that county’s Landisburg Cemetery

Wilt, Frederick
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Developed chronic rheumatism while stationed with his regiment in Louisiana during the 1864 Red River Campaign; received medical treatment, post-war, at the U.S. National Home for Disabled Soldiers in Hampton, Virginia between 1896 and 1900; died there, 22 February 1900; interred at the Hampton National Cemetery

Witz, John (alternate spellings: Wilts, Wiltz, Wilz, Witts)
Private, Unassigned Men and Company E
Medical Status: Fell ill with typhoid fever during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; was taken to the Union’s hospital ship, the USS Laurel Hill, which was docked near Morganza; died aboard that ship, 23 June 1864 (alternate death date: 21 June 1864); his death was certified by the 47th Pennsylvania’s Medical Director, Regimental Surgeon Elisha W. Baily, M.D.; was most likely buried at sea or near Morganza; however, his exact burial location remains unidentified

Work, Andrew
Private, Company D
Medical Status: Left behind when his regiment sailed for Florida, he died at the Union Hotel General Hospital, Georgetown (likely of dysentery), 27 February 1862 (alternate date of death, 22 February 1862); interred in section G, grave no. 3897 of the Military Asylum Cemetery (now known as the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery) in Washington, D.C.

Work, Washington
Private, Company D
Medical Status: Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability from the post hospital at Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida in July 1862, he made it home to Perry County, Pennsylvania, but died there, 18 October 1862 (alternate death date: 21 September 1862); interred at the Duncannon Union Cemetery in Duncannon, Perry County

Worley, John (alternate spellings: Wehle, Werley, Worly, Whorley)
Private, Company F
Medical Status: Fell ill with chronic diarrhea during the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana; was transported to New Orleans, where he was confined to the Union’s St. Louis General Hospital; died there, 15 July 1864; interred 16 July 1864 in section 142, grave no. 3804 of the Monument Cemetery in New Orleans (now the Chalmette National Cemetery)

Wolf, Peter
Private, Company C
Medical Status: Killed in action at the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, 22 October 1862, his death  was certified by Assistant Regimental Surgeon Jacob Scheetz, M.D.; his remains were returned to Pennsylvania for interment at the Emanuel Lutheran Evangelical Church Cemetery in Wolf’s Crossroads, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania

Wolf, Samuel (alternate first name: Simon)
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Initially declared as missing in action following the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 9 April 1864, he was ultimately declared as having been killed in action during that battle after having been absent from muster rolls for a substantial period of time; burial location remains unidentified

 

Surnames Beginning with X:

Xander, Dallas C.
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Died from consumption (tuberculosis) at the age of thirty-four or thirty-five, 7 March 1883; interred at the Gnaden Huetten Cemetery in Lehighton, Carbon County, Pennsylvania

Xander, George A.
Private, Company G
Medical Status: Seriously wounded in the hip during the Battle of Sabine Crossroads/Mansfield, Louisiana, 8 April 1864; received medical treatment during a month-long recovery period; returned to duty with his regiment; honorably discharged, 3 October 1864 (alternate date: 1 November 1864); returned home to Pennsylvania; fell ill during the early winter of 1926; developed pneumonia in early February of that year; died from pneumonia at the age of eighty-one in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, 6 March 1926, and was buried at that city’s Union-West End Cemetery

 

Surnames Beginning with Y:

Young, Daniel
Private, Company B
Medical Status: Transferred to the U.S. Army’s Veteran Reserve Corps (also known as the “Invalid Corps”), 14 March 1865

Young, John Boulton (nickname: Boulty)
Drummer Boy, Company C
Medical: Became the first member of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry to die in service to the nation; contracted Variola (smallpox) while stationed with his regiment in Virginia during late September or early October 1861, despite having been vaccinated for the disease; was transported to the Kalorama eruptive fever hospital in the District of Columbia, but died there, at the age of thirteen, 17 October 1861; initially interred at the Military Asylum Cemetery (now the United States Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery) in Washington, D.C., his remains were exhumed in early 1862 and transported back to Northumberland County, Pennsylvania for reinterment at the Sunbury Cemetery in Sunbury, Pennsylvania

 

Surnames Beginning with Z:

Zellner, Benjamin Franklin (alternate spelling of surname: Cellner, Sellner; nickname: Ben)
Private, Company K
Medical Status: Wounded in action four times in 1864 and again in 1865 while assigned to Reconstruction-related duties; shot in the leg during Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 9 April 1864; also captured in that battle by Confederates and held initially as a prisoner of war (POW) at Pleasant Hill and Mansfield, he was subsequently marched or transported to Camp Ford near Tyler Texas (the largest Confederate prison west of the Mississippi River); although Camp Ford records (under surname of “Cellner”) state that he was released during a prisoner exchange, 22 July 1864, Zellner stated in multiple, post-war newspaper accounts that he was one of a group of three to four hundred Union soldiers who were deemed well enough by Camp Ford officials to be shipped to Shreveport, Louisiana before they were transported by rail to Andersonville, the notorious Confederate POW camp in Georgia; confined at Andersonville until he was released during a prisoner exchange in September 1864, he received medical treatment from Union Army surgeons, recovered and returned to duty with his regiment; shot in his leg again during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864, he also sustained a bayonet wound during that same battle; after receiving medical treatment, he recovered—partially (the bayonet wound never healed properly)—and returned to duty with his regiment again; sustained head and facial injuries, including a broken jaw, scalp lacerations, the loss of sight in his right eye, the loss of hearing in his left ear and the partial loss of hearing in his right ear, during a building collapse in Charleston, South Carolina in the fall of 1865; mustered out with his regiment out 25 December 1865; returned home to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley; died in his late eighties in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, 1938, and was buried at the Greenwood Cemetery in Allentown

Zeppenfeld, Heinrich (“Henry”) (alternate spellings: Zeppenfeld, Zeppenfeldt, Zeppenfelt, Zeppenfield)
Rank: Private, Company G
Medical Status: Fell ill with typhoid fever sometime in late August or early September 1862, and was confined to the Union Army’s General Hospital No. 2 at Beaufort, South Carolina; died there from typhoid fever 10 September 1862; remains returned to Pennsylvania by Allentown undertaker, Paul Balliet, aboard the Union transport Delaware on 29 November; interred at the Union West-End Cemetery on 30 November

 

Unknown U.S. Soldiers:

The following entry was made in a national cemetery burial ledger for members of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry:

• Unknown U.S. Solder, 47th Pa. Infty., From Whence Removed: John Cooley’s Farm [no rank or company identified; no dates of death or burial provided]

 

Sources:

1. Bates, Samuel P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, vol. 1. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1869.
2. Civil War Muster Rolls (47th Pennsylvania Infantry, 1864). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
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.
6. Prisoner of War Rosters, Camp Ford (47th Pennsylvania Infantry, 1864). Tyler, Texas: Smith County Historical Society, retrieved 2014.
7. Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861–1865 (NAID: 656639), in “Records of the Adjutant General’s Office” (Record Group 94). Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
8. Registers of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865 (47th Regiment), in “Records of the Department of Military and Veterans’ Affairs” (Record Group 19). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
9. Roll of Honor: Names of Soldiers Who, in Defence [sic] of the American Union, Suffered Martyrdom in the Prison Pens throughout the South. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1867-1868.
10. Scott, Col. Robert N., ed. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Series I – Volume XXXIV – In Four Parts: Part II, Correspondence, etc.: Chapter XLVI: Louisiana and the Trans-Mississippi). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1891.
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12. Thoms, Alston V., principal investigator and editor, and David O. Brown, Patricia A. Clabaugh, J. Philip Dering, et. al., contributing authors. Uncovering Camp Ford: Archaeological Interpretations of a Confederate Prisoner-of-War Camp in East Texas. College Station, Maryland: Center for Ecological Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Texas A & M University, 2000.
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14. Wharton, Henry. Letters from the Sunbury Guards, 1864. Sunbury, Pennsylvania: Sunbury American.