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Letters Home and Diaries Kept
The Scribes of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
Henry D. Wharton – Journalist, Soldier and Public Servant
Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 11th Regiment-Sunbury Guards, April-July 1861)
Transcripts: Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 11th Regiment-Sunbury Guards, April-July, 1861)
Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-Sunbury Guards, September 1861 – October 1865)
Transcripts (1861): Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-Sunbury Guards, September 1861 – October 1865)
Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters, 1862 (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment)
Transcripts (1862): Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-Sunbury Guards, September 1861 – October 1865)
Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters, 1863 (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment)
Transcripts (1863): Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-Sunbury Guards, September 1861 – October 1865)
Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters, 1864 (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment)
Transcripts (1864): Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-Sunbury Guards, September 1861 – October 1865)
Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters, 1865 (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment)
Transcripts (1865): Henry D. Wharton’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-Sunbury Guards, September 1861 – October 1865)
Sergeant John Gross Helfrich — Yearning for Peace While Fighting for Country, Cause and Honor
John G. Helfrich’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-January 1862 – December 1862)
Transcripts (1862): John Gross Helfrich’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-January 1862 – Spring 1864)
John G. Helfrich’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-February 1863 – November 1863)
Transcripts (1863): John Gross Helfrich’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-January 1862 – Spring 1864)
John G. Helfrich’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-May 1864)
Transcripts (1864): John Gross Helfrich’s Civil War Letters (Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment-May 1864)
Henry J. Hornbeck — A Highly Esteemed Citizen
Transcripts: Henry J. Hornbeck’s Civil War Diary (47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, excerpts: 1862-Early 1864)
Key Battles, Transports and Duty Stations
Official Battle and Campaign Reports
Report of Major General George B. McClellan Upon the Organization of the Army of the Potomac and Its Campaigns in Virginia and Maryland (excerpt from the 1863 report covering the period of 1861-1862)
Reports on the Capture of Saint John’s Bluff, Florida and Related Events, Brigadier-General John M. Brannan (October 1862)
Reports on the Capture of Saint John’s Bluff and Related Events, Colonel Tilghman H. Good, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers (2-3 October 1862)
Report of 1st Lieutenant George H. Hill, 55th Pennsylvania Volunteers and Acting Signal Officer, Saint John’s River Expedition, Florida and Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina (1 November 1862)
Report of 2nd Lieutenant Franklin E. Town, 42nd New York Volunteers and Acting Signal Officer, Recapture of Jacksonville, Florida (13 October 1862)
Report of Lieutenant George W. Bacon, Aide-de-Camp, Capture of Confederate Steamer Governor Milton (30 December 1862)
Reports by Brigadier-General Joseph Finegan, Commanding, Confederate States Army, Department of Middle and East Florida, and Lieutenant Colonel Charles F. Hopkins Confederate States Army and Related Correspondence, Saint John’s Bluff, Florida (October-December 1862)
Reports, including Potocaligo Casualties, of Major-General Ormsby M. Mitchel, Commanding, U.S. Department of the South (22 and 24 October 1862)
Reports of Brigadier-General John M. Brannan, Commanding, Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina (24 October and 6 November 1862)
Reports of Tilghman H. Good, Acting Brigade Commander and Colonel Commanding, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers (24-25 October 1862)
Report of Brigadier-General Alfred H. Terry, Commanding, 2nd Brigade, U.S. Tenth Army Corps, Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina (3 November 1862)
Report of Colonel Louis Bell, Commanding, 4th New Hampshire Volunteers, Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina (24 October 1862)
Report of Colonel Richard White, Commanding, 55th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina (26 October 1862)
Red River Campaign Report, Major-General Nathaniel P. Banks (6 April 1865)
“Bailey’s Dam” Construction Report, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Bailey (17 May 1864)
Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Camp Cadwalader, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Medical
Roster: Surgeons and Other Medical Personnel, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
Lewis Harry Adler, Sr., M.D.
Elisha W. Baily, M.D.
William F. Reiber, M.D.
Jacob Henry Scheetz, M.D.
John Young Shindel, M.D.
Samuel Burton Sturdevant, M.D. — A “Well Known and Successful Practitioner of Medicine”
Regimental Band
Roster 1 — Regimental Band (47th Pennsylvania)
Professor Thomas Coates, Regimental Band Leader, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
Corporal William Henry Nagle, Musician 2nd Class
The Schwenzer/Schwentzer Brothers — Immigrants, Respected Artists and Beloved American Civic Leaders
Joseph Eugene Walter — From Medical Student to Musician to Machinist
Roster 2 (partial) — Regimental Band (47th Pennsylvania)
Bush, Anton Benjamin (Band Leader and Private)
The Sieger Brothers — Three Very Different Life Journeys
Officers
Roster: Field and Staff Officers, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
Colonel Tilghman H. Good
The Honorable John Peter Shindel Gobin
Lieutenant-Colonel George Warren Alexander
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles William Abbott
Major William H. Gausler
The Fuller Family of Catasauqua — Leaders in War and Peace
Washington H. R. Hangen, First Lieutenant and Regimental Adjutant
Freedmen’s Bureau Reports of Washington H. R. Hangen, St. Tammany and Washington Parishes, Louisiana (November 1866-May 1867)
William M. Hendricks, First Lieutenant
William M. Hendricks (Part Two: Florida, Louisiana and Home)
What Happened to William Hendricks’ Family?
Washington Scott Johnston, First Lieutenant and Regimental Adjutant
First Lieutenant and Regimental Quartermaster William H. Ginkinger — A Good Son
Regimental Quartermaster Francis Z. Heebner — Everybody’s “Dad”
Regimental Quartermaster James Van Dyke, Sr. — An American Entrepreneur
Charles Bachman — From Pennsylvania Native to Neighborly Iowan
Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Charles H. Small
Company A
Roster: Company A, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
Captain Richard A. Graeffe
Private Michael Andrew, Sr. — A Widowed Father Goes to War
Private Daniel Battaglia — The Mental Cost of War
A Scorpion’s Target — Andrew Bellis
Eppler, Martin (Private)
Hall, George W. (Private)
Sponheimer, Lewis (Private and Musician)
Tag, John G. (Private)
The Daub Brothers—Immigrants Who Fought to Preserve America’s Union
Bills, David K. (Private)
Breidinger, Samuel (Private)
Private Charles C. Detweiler — Exhausted by a Gunshot Wound
Private Stephen J. Moyer — Faithful and Genial to the End
Company B
Roster: Company B, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
Alfred Eisenbraun, Drummer Boy — The Regiment’s Second “Man” to Die
Captain Emanuel P. Rhoads (“E. P. Rhoads”)
Captain William H. Kleckner
Captain Edwin G. Minnich — A Brave Young Man Who Loved His Country More Than Life
Julia Ann Magill and George E. Minnich — A Civil War Widow and Her Fatherless, Young Son Struggle to Survive
Sauerwein, Thomas Franklin (First Sergeant)
Fink, Aaron (Corporal)
From Fink to Bornman and Beyond — A Civil War Widow and Fatherless Children Move On
Assenheimer, Godfrey (Private)
Private Milton Peter Cashner — An Honorable Man Incorrectly Labeled a Deserter
Reichart, Edmund O. (Private)
The Seislove Brothers of Company B
Private Abraham N. Wolf — Millwright and “Inventive Genius”
Company C: Color-Bearers
Roster: Company C, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
The Oyster Clan — A Captain and Brothers Courageous
First Lieutenant Christian Seiler Beard
First Lieutenant William Reese
Jared C. Brosious – Shoemaker and Soldier
The Haupt Brothers of Sunbury
Marshall, Charles L. (“Lothard, Thomas”; Private)
Pyers, Samuel Hunter (Field Musician)
Pyers, William (Sergeant)
Walls, Benjamin (Regimental Color-Bearer)
Corporal Timothy Matthias Snyder — A Patriot’s Great-Grandson and Telephone Pioneer’s Father
Corporal Timothy Matthias Snyder (Part Two: One Union Preserved, Another Shattered)
What Happened to the Wife and Children of Timothy Matthias Snyder?
The First “Man” to Die — Drummer Boy John Boulton Young
What Happened to the Surviving Members of Boulty’s Family?
Private George W. Bortell (aka “George Bortle”)
John D. Colvin — Breaking Code to Preserve the Union
Private George Dillwyn John — An Abolitionist’s Son Who Was a “Friend to All”
Private Rafael Pérez: One Cuban Immigrant’s Story
Duties of the Color-Guard
Joint Resolutions Relative to the Procuring of Standards for the Several Regiments of Pennsylvania
The Battle-Cry of Freedom (Rally Round the Flag)
Company D
Roster: Company D, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
Captain Henry Durant (“H. D.”) Woodruff
Captain George Stroop – “A Splendid Citizen”
The Kosiers — Three Brothers Hope for Three-Year Terms
First Lieutenant Samuel S. Auchmuty — A Worthy Citizen
Meadath, Jesse (Second Lieutenant)
Crownover, James (First Sergeant)
The Brady Bunch of Company D (Privates)
The Fertig Brothers – Visible Scars of Valor
Heikel, Henry (Sergeant)
Holt, Franklin M. (Sergeant)
The Baltozers of Company D (Corporal and Privates)
James Downs – From Private to POW to Corporal
The Harpers of Company D – Kin to a Captain
McKee, William Alfred (Private)
Roth, John E. L. (Corporal)
Stewart, Cornelius Baskins (Corporal)
Small, Jerome Y. (Private)
Ewing, William H. (Private)
Isett, George Stein (Private)
Jury, George Washington (Private)
The Keims – A Son Following His Father into War
Zook, Daniel S. (Private)
Kochenderfer, George Washington (Private)
Snyder, Emanuel (Private)
Company E
Roster: Company E, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
Captain Charles Hickman Yard, Sr.
Edward W. Menner (Second Lieutenant)
William Rockafellow (Sergeant)
Lowrey, Thomas (Corporal)
Clark, Edward L. (Private)
Huber, David W. (Private)
The Kerkendall/Kirkendall Brothers – Comrades in War and Family Men
Private Jacob Tilghman Ochs—Laboring to Survive
Rinek, Henry (Private)
Simons, Frank (Private)
Todd, James Knox Polk (Private)
Company F
Roster: Company F, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
Captain Henry Samuel Harte — A Legacy of Hospitality
Captain Edwin Gilbert — A Soldier’s Soldier
William Hiram Bartholomew — Newspaperman and Leading Hotelier
The Lilly Brothers of Northampton County: Joseph, James and Harrison
Twists and Turns: The Tettemer Family’s Journey from New Jersey to Missouri — and Beyond
Private William Franklin Hollenbach — Christened on the Fourth of July
Heckman, Joseph (Private)
Lynn, Alfred (Private)
Private Lawrence McBride: An Immigrant Who Departed This World with Just Twenty-Five Cents to His Name
Griffin Reinert: A Life Changed by Chance Encounters
Private William Schuyler Reiser: From Farm Boy to Pioneer
Company G
Roster: Company G, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
Captain Charles Mickley – “War, the Chase and Liberty”
The Mickleys of Lehigh County – A Civil War-Era Family Mourns and Endures
Captain John Joseph Goebel – One Shoemaker’s Steps to Leadership
The Leisenring Family — Leading by Example
Anna Weiser Leisenring — An American Woman Who Was So Much More Than “Just” a Civil War Veteran’s Wife
Brevet Captain William Henry Steckel
The Hackman Brothers — Trading Blue Jackets for Blue Collars
Reily M. Fornwald – From Farmer to Railroader
Bernhard, Jairus (Private)
Private Hiram Brobst: A Dentist Consumed by Fate
Private Alpheus Dech – From Soap Boiler to Soldier
Privates Levinus and Solomon Hillegass – Brothers in Arms
Private Benjamin S. Koons – A Plumber Whose Life Force Was Drained Away by Disease
Private Reuben Wetzel – A Split-Second Decision with Dire Consequences
Zeppenfeld, Henry (Private)
Company H
Roster: Company H, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
Captain James Kacy and Son (Corporal James Jones Kacy)
First Lieutenant William W. Geety — Battling Back from a Nearly Fatal Head Wound
From Brothers-in-Law to Brothers-in-Arms — Second Lieutenant Christian K. Breneman and Private George W. Zinn
Clemmens, John H. (Corporal)
Daniel K. Reeder – A Lost Arm, a New Life
The Sweger Soldiers of Perry County: Cousins and Brothers-in-Arms
Private Luther Peter Bernheisel: Successful Small Businessman and Father of Civic Leaders
Private Nicholas Orris—The Face of Another Unknown Soldier
Seeing Through a Soldier’s Eyes — The Life of Perry County’s Jerome Bryner
Private Comley Idall — From Pleasant Sojourn to Despair
McKibbin, Robert (Private)
Private Edward Newman — A German Immigrant Defends the Union of His Adopted Homeland
The Battered Saylors and Sailors of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers and Their Baldwin Kin
Company I
Roster: Company I, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
Captain Coleman A. G. Keck — Touched by the Cold Hand of Death
Captain Theodore Mink — A Whaler and Warrior Who Ran Off to Join the Circus
Sergeant Thomas N. Burke – A First-Generation American Who Defended the Union Before Building a Life in Iowa
Sergeant Charles Nolf, Jr. – The Vagaries of War
The Fighting Fatzingers: Tilghman W. and Franklin George Washington Fatzinger
Private John W. Diaz — Immigrant, Defender of the Union, and Successful Small Businessman
What Happened to the Family of John Diaz?
Private Edwin Dreisbach – The Heavy Heart of a Tinman
Private Tempest T. Draubaugh – From Teacher to Tubercular
Private William Ellis – The First Member of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers to Die in South Carolina
The Ellis Family – Survivors in a “World of Truth and Sorrow”
McCape, Sylvester (Private)
Private Jonas Snyder: A Powder Maker Buried at Sea
Private Thomas Ziegler – A Patriot’s Descendant and Forefather of Civic Leaders
Company K
Roster: Company K, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers
First Lieutenant David K. Fetherolf — A Brave Man with an Impeccable Character
Second Lieutenant Alfred P. Swoyer — The Face of the Unknown Soldier
Sergeant-Major Conrad Volkenand: From Immigrant Soldier to Civic Leader
Sergeant William H. Burger—A Fighter to the End
Sergeant Phaon A. Guth
Correcting the Record: The Carl Brothers of Company K (William and Manoah Carl)
Martin L. Guth – A Corporal with a Pioneer’s Soul
The Battling Boger Boys
Private William Brecht – A German Immigrant Fighting for His Adopted Homeland’s Union
Private Gottlieb Fiesel – Jousting with the Reaper
Private Jacob F. Hertzog – A Battle-Scarred Survivor
Frederick Koehler — The First Red River Campaign Casualty for the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry?
Sterner, William (Private)
Private Benjamin Franklin Zellner – Indomitable Valor
Unassigned Men
The Fighting Keisers – Father and Son, Uriah and Emanuel
Immigration and Immigrant Soldiers
Immigrants and First Generation Americans Who Enlisted with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers for U.S. Civil War Military Service (abridged list)
Religion and Spirituality
In the Valley of the Shadow: The Rev. William Dewitt Clinton Rodrock, A.M., Chaplain, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers (part one)
In the Valley of the Shadow: The Rev. William Dewitt Clinton Rodrock, A.M., Chaplain, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers (part two)
In the Valley of the Shadow: The Rev. William Dewitt Clinton Rodrock, A.M., Chaplain, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers (part three)
Chaplain William Dewitt Clinton Rodrock’s Civil War Letters and Reports (47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1862-1865)
Chaplain William Dewitt Clinton Rodrock’s Civil War Letters and Reports (47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1864)
Chaplain William Dewitt Clinton Rodrock’s Civil War Letters and Reports (47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1865)
Resting Places and Memorials
Regimental Monuments and Company Memorials by City, 47th Pennsylvania
Emaus Honor Roll
Lehigh County Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Presentation by The Honorable Constantine J. Erdman, Soldiers and Sailors Monument Dedication, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 19 October 1899
Mayor James L. Schaadt’s Speech on Accepting the Lehigh Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Allentown, 19 October 1899
Remarks by Pennsylvania Governor William A. Stone, Dedication of the Lehigh County Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Allentown, 19 October 1899
George F. Baer’s Oration, Dedication of the Lehigh County Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Allentown, 19 October 1899
Remarks by Colonel Albert D. Shaw, National Commander, Grand Army of the Republic, at the Dedication of the Lehigh County Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Allentown, 19 October 1899
Remarks by Adjutant General Thomas Stewart at the Dedication, Lehigh County Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Allentown, 19 October 1899
Das Its der Tag des Herrn! (This Is the Day of the Lord!) by Ludwig Uhland
Soldiers’ Monument, Fairview Cemetery
Start of the Rebellion
War’s End and Reconstruction
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Allen Rifles
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Sunbury Guards (Company F, 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers)
Union Rifles (Allen Rifles Plus Jordan Artillerists)
47th Pennsylvania Militia, Emergency of 1863
William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A.
John Edward Gerould (Sergeant)
Elisha Albright Hoffman
Brainerd Leaman, M.D.
David Tagg (Private)
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