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Posted By Jake Wynn on June 18, 2013

As yesterday’s post illustrated, the state government felt it necessary to begin evacuating the archives found within the state library in the midst of the crisis. Today, we will examine the situation in Harrisburg from a different perspective…

Today’s post will allow the people who were in the city on June 16, 1863 to tell the story.

“The morning broke upon a populace all astir; who had been called out of bed by the “beat of the alarming drum,” the blast of the bugle and the clanging of bells. The streets were lively with men who were either returning from a night’s work on the fortifications, or going over to relieve those who were either returning from a night’s work on the fortifications, or were going over to relieve those who were toiling there.

“As the sun rose higher, the excitement gathered head. All along the streets were omnibuses, wagons and wheelbarrows, taking in trunks and valuables and rushing them down to the depot, to be shipped out of rebel range. The stores, the female seminaries, and almost every private residence, were busy all forenoon in swelling the mountain of freight that lay at the depot. Every horse was impressed into the service, and every porter groaned beneath his weight of responsibilities…”

– Harrisburg Patriot & Union

“About ten o’clock this morning, the horse belonging to Dr. Harris, of Third Street, became frightened at something unusual, and dashed down the street throwing both the Dr. and his driver, a little negro boy, out of the carriage. Relieved of its driver, the horse now had full sway and increased his speed down the street. As he neared Market, the carriage collided with another coming from another direction, spilling its occupants and breaking the carriage in a dozen different places…”

“… The persons thrown out of the carriage sustained but little injury.”

– Harrisburg Telegraph

The Pennsylvania Railroad Depot at Harrisburg in 1865

“The railroad stations were crowded with an excited people,—men, women, and children,—with trunks, boxes, bundles; packages tied up in bed-blankets and quilts; mountains of baggage,—tumbling it into the cars, rushing here and there in a frantic manner; shouting, screaming, as if the Rebels were about to dash into the town and lay it in ashes. The railroad authorities were removing their cars and engines. The merchants were packing up their goods; housewives were secreting their silver; everywhere there was a hurly-burly…”

– Charles C. Coffin, Boston Journal

” The scene at noon at the depots was indescribable… A sweltering mass of humanity thronged the platform, all furious to escape from the doomed city.”

“At the bridge and across the river the scene was equally excited. All through the day a steady steam of people, on foot and in wagons, young and old, black and white, was pouring across it from the Cumberland Valley, bearing with them their household goods and all manner of goods and stock…”

The Old “Camelback” Bridge (Market Street Bridge today) was the main road over the Susquehanna River at Harrisburg.

“… Endless trains, laden with flour, grain and merchandise, hourly emerged from the valley and thundered across the bridge and through the city. Wagons loaded with tons of trunks and boxes, defiled in continuous procession down the pike and across the river, raising a dust cloud that marked the outline of the road as far as the eye could see.” 

– Harrisburg Patriot & Union

“Citizens in straw hats and linen coats are parading the streets with muskets, and learning the manual of arms. Hundreds of officers are rushing to and fro, and to my great grief, are occupying all the rooms at the hotels. 

“The railroad trains, both arriving and departing, are loaded down, and the whole town is in such a state of excitement that even Pennsylvania Dutch phlegm cannot resist the contagion. 

“What will become of Harrrisburgh when it relapses into its usual stupor the oldest inhabitant cannot imagine.”

– Harrisburg correspondent, The New York Times 

Harrisburg became the focal point of the Union during these stressful few days. Many realized that the war could be won or lost in the hills and valleys of Central Pennsylvania. This struggle in Pennsylvania would prove to be the among the most crucial moments during the Civil War.

The photograph of the Camelback Bridge comes from the Pennsylvania State Archives. 

The photograph and quote from Charles Coffin comes from his book,  Four Years of Fighting. 

Stay tuned for more posts as Central Pennsylvania commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Invasion of Pennsylvania and the battle of Gettysburg.

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Posted By Jake Wynn on June 17, 2013

While Confederate troops splashed across the Potomac River and headed towards Pennsylvania, the state capital at Harrisburg went into a full crisis mode. The state government immediately sent out notice for troops to be raised to defend the state from the perceived threat of invasion. Governor Andrew Curtin sent out a proclamation calling for aid from neighboring states. However, when word spread to the city that Confederate forces had entered the border towns, the situation worsened.

View of Harrisburg from across the river in June or July 1863

As mentioned by diarists in other posts, General Milroy’s wagon train from Winchester fanned the flames of turmoil as it passed up the Cumberland Valley towards Harrisburg. Every town and village along the route towards the capital filled with the hundreds of Union stragglers. Soon after this hurried exodus, a whole new problem developed. Citizens from these towns packed up their families and hit the road along with hundreds of others, all leaving the perceived terror of Confederate rule.

A special map published by the New York Times

One citizen summed up his evacuation from Chambersburg before the Confederates entered the town on the evening of the June 15.

“About midnight, awakened by the news that the Rebels were at Shippensburg. Dressing, we immediately left for Carlisle at midnight, being so dark and the roads jammed with wagons, made dangerous situation that I regretted leaving home in the first place. However, thanks to Almighty Providence, we arrived safely in Carlisle about 4 o’clock in the morning. Tried to get more sleep, but impossible, excitement here is mounting.

We got a bite to eat, the horse fed, and left for Harrisburg. All along the way the news had preceded us, people out securing and leaving with their goods. Driving away their horses, and all shops shut up…. 

…. We crossed the river without difficulty and found Harrisburg, in wildest confusion. Merchants shipping away their goods, families their furniture, and people fleeing in all directions. Almost laughable scenes some created.”

Hundreds of people from the Cumberland Valley packed up everything they could and struck out for the perceived safety of Harrisburg in just this fashion.

Sketch of “Southern View of Harrisburg,” made in 1863

However, the alarm was not limited to the citizens alone. The state government also began efforts to prevent its destruction. Boston Journal correspondent Charles Coffin wrote of what he saw in the Capitol. “At the State-House, men in their shirt-sleeves were packing papers into boxes. Every team, every horse and mule and handcart in the town were employed,” Coffin wrote.

The New York Times also reported that the state was actively moving its archives from Harrisburg to safety in Philadelphia.

The State Capitol as it looked in 1863.

The Pennsylvania government had gone from legislating and governing, to evacuating and preparing the city’s defenses in but a few, short days.

It appears at least one of the Harrisburg newspapers, The Telegraph, did not publish an edition on June 16, likely because of the chaotic events overtaking the city. However, the Harrisburg Patriot and Union summed up the events of that day with two lines that nearly perfectly sums up the frenzied events of the prior days.

“But we need not prolong our attempt at description, as the scene was too much for the task of pen and paper. Yet it was but a mere preface, a prelude, to the unutterable horrors of war.”

Tomorrow’s post will take a look at descriptions of the city of Harrisburg as it swelled with refugees and soldiers alike. 

Top photo comes from the Cumberland County Historical Society.

Other photos come from the Library of Congress and the Pennsylvania Civil War Newspaper Collections. 

Stay tuned for more posts as Central Pennsylvania commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Invasion of Pennsylvania and the battle of Gettysburg. 

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Posted By Jake Wynn on June 16, 2013

The total collapse of Union forces at Winchester on June 15 sent hundreds of stragglers careening through southern Pennsylvania en route to Harrisburg via the Cumberland Valley. Their wagon train, numbering nearly 500 fully loaded wagons, sped through the southern towns at breakneck speed, saying the Southerners were fast on their heels.

Confederates crossing the Potomac River in June , 1863

As June 16, 1863 dawned, the situation enveloping Central Pennsylvania continued to become more perilous. A party of rebel cavalry numbering in the hundreds had occupied the Pennsylvania border towns of Greencastle and Chambersburg the previous evening.

Late in the evening of the 15th, Southern cavalry under the command of Albert Jenkins briefly occupied Chambersburg, stationing themselves on a farm just outside the town limits.

General Albert G. Jenkins

Amos Stouffer, the young man from Chambersburg recorded this in his diary on June 16.

“The Rebs are in town. The great body have followed Milroy’s wagon trains which went through town yesterday. About 500 wagons and 2,000 horses-a very valuable train. The rebs are mannerly yet and do not disturb private property. They have their pickets all around us. Our news is cut off and we are under rebel rule. “

These Pennsylvania towns must have seemed very lonely to its remaining citizens. According to a telegram sent by Governor Andrew Curtin, the telegraph officer in Chambersburg had been forced to evacuate to nearby Scotland Bridge, nine miles from Chambersburg. This had effectively cut off Chambersburg and nearby communities from the rest of the North.

Rachel Cormany, also of Chambersburg, recorded the rebels entering the town early in the morning on June 16. She reported an incident at about 2:30 in the morning involving Confederate pickets. According to Cormany, the Confederate cavalry clattered through the main street, when a single shot was fired at them from somewhere within the town. She wrote that the “greybacks” threatened to burn the town if fired upon again. Following the flare-up, the town sank back into an uneasy sleep until the morning. Then Cormany reports the most hair-raising of tales.

“We almost came to the conclusion that the reb’s had left again leaving only a small guard who took things quite leasurely. Soon however they became more active. Were hunting up the contrabands & driving them off by droves. O! How it grated on our hearts to have to sit quietly & look at such brutal deeds–I saw no men among the contrabands–all women & children. Some of the colored people who were raised here were taken along–I sat on the front step as they were driven by just like we would drive cattle.”

What she is describing is one of the most somber and often forgotten chapters of the Gettysburg Campaign. Rebel soldiers looked not only for food, drink, and horses, but actively sought out “contrabands” or African-Americans in the areas they occupied. Escaped slaves mixed with free black citizens of Pennsylvania as they fled the coming rebel invasion. Sadly, several of them were caught up in the rebel advance, and where forcibly marched south into slavery.

The rounding up of contrabands and a few cases of arson, along with the theft of horses, was the result of this first Confederate advance into Pennsylvania that summer. However, this tipped the hand of the Southern forces. Suddenly, leaders in the state capital realized that the Keystone State and their city was the real target of the Southern advance.

Tomorrow’s topic will be the first responses to Confederates entering Pennsylvania. 

Diaries for this post came from the Valley of the Shadow Collection by the University of Virginia. 

Pictures also come from the Library of Congress Collection of Civil War Images 

Stay tuned for more posts as Central Pennsylvania commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Invasion of Pennsylvania and the battle of Gettysburg. 

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Posted By Jake Wynn on June 15, 2013

As General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia began its trek up the Shenandoah Valley in early June 1863, the objective mystified many in the North. Some thought he had aims on Washington or Baltimore, while others thought he was taking his army further north, into the Union’s second most populous state. Pennsylvania looked like a great place for Lee to lead his army of more than 70,000 men, allowing them to live off the enemy’s country and allow for a summer harvest in war-ravaged Virginia.

General Robert E. Lee

As his Confederate army left its position near Fredericksburg, Virginia inthe beginning of June, they left behind an area where they had achieved two great victories over larger Union armies. In December 1862, Lee’s troops crushed an ill-fated and poorly planned assault on the town of Fredericksburg by Union forces under the command of General Ambrose Burnside, resulting in more than 13,000 Union casualties.

Fredericksburg, VA by Alexander Gardener

Following months of desertion and slogging through the Virginia winter mud, the Union forces again began action in late April 1863, under a new commander. General “Fighting Joe” Hooker took the Army of the Potomac across the Rappahannock River west of Fredericksburg in a new attempt to destroy the Army of Northern Virginia.

Instead, Lee’s smaller Confederate army outflanked and outfought the hapless Union army in a bloody battle at a small crossroads community known as Chancellorsville, in the “Wilderness” of Virginia. The Confederate army then pulled out of this region of Virginia in early June 1863, and began its march west towards the Shenandoah Valley and the cover the Blue Ridge mountains provided from the prying eyes of Hooker’s Union cavalry. He succeeded and began his march up the Valley, rolling up Union forces stationed in the upper end of the Shenandoah.

The reaction to the news sent many in the southern Pennsylvania into a panic. The Union garrison at Winchester, Virginia collapsed after fighting on June 13-15. The remnants of that force rushed into the Cumberland Valley and through the towns and villages of Franklin County. Diarist Amos Stouffer of Chambersburg noted on June 15 that “excitement is very great about the rebs.” Rumors had spread throughout this region that the Confederates had already occupied Hagerstown, Maryland.

“Reports of an engagement near Winchester. Our town in an uproar. Government property being loaded up and taken away. The drum calls for volunteers.”  Sixty-seven year old Chambersburg resident William Heysel recorded in his diary on June 14. The next day, the streets of the town filled with the wagons of hundreds of refugees as they fled north towards Carlisle.

Chambersburg, PA during the Civil War

Later in the same entry, Heysel wrote “Suddenly about two hundred more wagons, horses, mules, and contrabands all came pouring down the street in full flight. Some of them holloring the Rebels are behind us. Such a sight I have never seen, or will never see again. The whole town is on the sidewalks screaming, crying, and running about. They know not where.” Heysel vowed to stand his ground and defend his family and his property.

Rachel Cormany mentioned the threat of invasion briefly in a diary entry on June 14. “Some excitement about the rebels come. Evening the excitement pretty high,” the Chambersburg woman wrote. The next day she captured some of the chaos that enveloped the town of more than 5,000 people.

“This morning pretty early Gen. Milroys wagon train (so we were told) came… There really was a real panic. All reported that the rebels were just on their heels. Soon things became more quiet–& all day government wagons & horses were passing through. For awhile before dark the excitement abated a little–but it was only like the calm before a great storm. At dusk or a little before the news came that the rebels were in Greencastle & that said town was on fire. Soon after some of the our guard came in reporting that they had a skirmish with them. Soon followed 100-200 cavalry men–the guard. Such a skedadling as their was among the women & children to get into the houses. All thought the Rebels had really come. The report now is that they will be here in an hour.”

A special dispatch from the New York Times correspondent in Harrisburg reported a simple, yet disturbing message on the evening of June 15.

June 15 would prove to be just the first day in a long, hot month for the citizens of Central Pennsylvania. Lee’s army, in truth, remained about 40 miles to the south, battling with Union forces around Winchester. Small groups of an advanced cavalry screen would soon enter Chambersburg. This fed the flying  rumors that the Southerners were soon to enter the Keystone State en masse. The farmers and merchants of Franklin County would soon face an enemy invasion. Few of them could ever imagine that they would witness one of the most vital and perilous times the Union would face in the Civil War.

Keep up with the events of the Gettysburg Campaign through the words Central Pennsylvanians who witnessed it by continuing to follow the Civil War Blog by the Gratz Historical Society. 

Diaries and pictures for this post came from the Valley of the Shadow Collection by the University of Virginia. 

Pictures also come from the Library of Congress Collection of Civil War Images 

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Posted By Norman Gasbarro on June 14, 2013

Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was last updated 19 April 2012.  In a series of posts continuing intermittently until concluding in mid-June, a brief sketch of each of the new names added since then will be presented.  Note that in a few cases, the persons are not veterans, but have been identified with some Civil War event or are related to a Civil War veteran.  At the conclusion of the listing of these added names, the Veterans list will be updated with the new names, re-alphabetized, and presented in a new format which includes the Project File Number for each individual.

Additional information is sought on each of the individuals in the Veterans’ List.  Comments can be added to the blog post or information can be sent by e-mail.  Of particular interest are stories, pictures, military records, pension information, and genealogies.

Abbreviations:  CW# = Civil War Research Project File Number.  MI = Mustered In.  MO = Mustered Out.  NARA = National Archives and Records Administration Microfilm Series and Roll Number.  POW = Prisoner of War.  AKA = Also Known As.  Months are abbreviated with the standard 3-letter abbreviation.

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[CW#W003.5] Emil Carl Wagner (1846-1912) ——— 8th Pennsylvania Infantry, National Guard of Pennsylvania, Company F, Captain (post Civil War service).   Referred to as “Capt. Wagner.”  Served post-Civil War.  Not found in Civil War records.  Found in Biographical Cyclopedia of Schuylkill County, p. 515 & portrait.

[CW#W04.5] George F. Wagner (18xx-xxxx) ——- 172nd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company D, ?  Found in Trevorton Civil War veterans’ list, p. 54.

[CW#W009] William Wagner (1841-1864) ——– 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company C, Private (MI 9 Sep 1861 – Killed in Action 19 Aug 1864).  NARA M554-R126.  MI: Harrisburg, PA.  Re-enlisted at Blaine’s Crossroads, Tennessee, 1 Jan 1864.  Killed in action (KIA), at Weldon Railroad, 19 Aug 1864.   Buried: Poplar Grove National  Cemetery, Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. (originally buried 9th Army Corps Cemetery, Meade Station, Virginia).  Resisdence:  Minersville, Pennsylvania.  Occupation:  Farmer.

[CW#W023.5] Thomas Waliser (1846-xxxx) ——– 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company C, Private (MI 27 Mar 1865 – MO 30 Jul 1865).  NARA M554-R126.  Enrolled: Pottsville.  MI: Pottsville.           Possibly not married.  Occupation: Boatman.  Residence: Cressona, Schuylkill County.  AKA:  Wallisa.

[CW#W024.5] Augustus Wall (1841-1917) ——– 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company C, Private (MI 6 Feb 1865 – MO 30 Jul 1865).  NARA M554-R126.  Enrolled: Pottsville.  MI: Pottsville.   Born: France (Immigrant).  Married:  Catherine “Kate” Farrell.  Died: Philadelphia.  Buried:  Fernwood Mausoleum, Fernwood, Delaware County.   Occupation: Boatman.  Residence: Schuylkill County.  Moved to Philadelphia.  Owned Tugboats, Delaware River.  Tragedy:  Tugboat crash on Delaware River, no one killed.

[CW#W025] William Smith Wallace (1802-1867) ——– Paymaster in Union Army.  Lincoln’s brother-in-law.  Married:  Frances Todd.

[CW#W032.3] George Walthon (18xx-xxxx) ——– 18th Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency of 1862), Company B, ? (MI ? – MO ?).  Found in Trevorton Civil War veterans’ list, p. 54.

[CW#W032.5] Harrison Walton (1843-xxxx) ——– 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A, Private (MI 6 Dec 1862 – MO 10 Aug 1865).  21st Veteran Reserve Corps (Transfered 24 Feb 1865 & returned to 50th Pennsylvania Infantry for discharge).   NARA M554-R127.  NARA M636-R42.  Enrolled: Falmouth, Virginia.  MI: Falmouth, Virginia.  Wounded at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia, 12 May 1864.  Absent at MO due to wounds received at Gettysburg, 1 Jul 1863.  Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps (VRC).  Married: Sarah Bretz.   Occupation: Boatman.  Residence: Pottsville.

[CW#W035.5] William P. Warearm (1841-xxxx) ——– 210th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, Sergeant (MI 10 Sep 1864 – 30 May 1865).  Enrolled: Lewistown.  MI: Camp Curtin.  Promoted to Sergeant, 1 Oct 1864.   Widow applied for pension, 2 Aug 1890.   Buried:  St. Mark’s Cemetery, Lewistown, Mifflin County.

[CW#W041.5] Levan J. Warner (1847-1864) ——–  50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company C, Private (MI 19 Feb 1864 – Killed in Action 6 May 1864).  27th Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency of 1863), Company C, Private (MI 23 Jun 1863 – MO 31 Jul 1863).  NARA M554-R127.  Enrolled:  Pottsville.  MI: Pottsville.  Killed at Wilderness, Virginia, 6 May 1864.  Mother: Mary Emerich Warner (or Werner).  Father: Daniel Warner.  Residence: Pottsville.  Occupation: Boatman.   AKA:  Werner.

[CW#W041.7] Gouverneur Kemble Warren (1830-1882) ——– General.

[CW#W043] W. W. Waters (18xx-xxxx) ——– Unknown Civil War service.  Possible that this is a Spanish American War veteran.   Buried:  Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, Williamstown, Dauphin County.   G.A.R. marker at gravesite.  Could be Walter W. Williams (born 1877), buried next to his father, Benjamin A. Walters who was a Civil War veteran.

[CW#W044.5] Lloyd F. A. Watts (1835-1918) ——– 24th U.S. Colored Troops (USCT), Company B, Corporal, Sergeant (MI 3 Feb 1865 – MO 1 Oct 1865).  NARA M589-R92.  Promoted to Full Sergeant, 8 Feb 1865.  Stationed at Point Lookout, Maryland at Prisoner of War Camp.    Married: Philena Cameron.  ?Married:  Sarah ? ? or ?  3rd Great-Grandfather of Linda D. Thompson, Mayor of Harrisburg (2012).  African American.  Buried:  Lincoln Cemetery, Gettysburg, Adams County.  Published accounts of Civil War service in several sources.    AKA:  Lloyd F. Watts.

[CW#W047] Daniel D. Weaver (1831-1862) ——–  50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A, Private (MI 9 Sep 1861 – MO Surgeon’s Certificate of Disability, date unknown).  NARA M554-R128.  Enrolled:  Dauphin County.  MI:  Harrisburg. Brother Jacob Weaver also served in Civil War.    Buried: David’s Bible Church Cemetery, Killinger (Millersburg), Dauphin County.   Residence:  Millersburg.  Occupation:  Carpenter.  Note:  Daniel’s name does not appear on Millersburg G.A.R. Monument but Jacob Weaver is on monument.  AKA:  Waever.

[CW#W047.5] Frederick G. Weaver (1833-1924) ——–  7th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company K, Private, Blacksmith (MI 2 Dec 1861 – MO 23 Aug 1865).  NARA M554-R128.  Enroled: Camp Cameron.  MI: Camp Cameron.  Re-enlisted at Huntsville, Alabama, as blacksmith, 28 Nov 1863.     Born: New York City.  Died: Baltimore, Maryland.   Buried:  Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Marysville, Rye Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania.   Residence: Bells Mills. Not to be confused with Frederick Weaver of Elizabethville (records could be co-mingled).

[CW#W047/7] George W. Weaver (18xx-xxxx) ——– 8th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A, ? (MI ? – MO ?).  45th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company ? Found in Trevorton Civil War veterans’ list, p. 54.

[CW#W052] John Weaver (1845-xxxx) ——– 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company B, Private (MI 16 Nov 1861 – MO 18 Jul 1865).  NARA M554-R128.  Re-enlisted at Mossy Creek, Tennessee, 1 Jan 1864.     Born:  Dauphin County.  Two persons with same name – one in 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company B, and one in 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company I – records might be co-mingled. Occupation:  Farmer.  Residence in 1861:  Dauphin County.

[CW#W053.3] Lewis D. Weaver (18xx-xxxx) ——- 18th Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency of 1862), Company B, ? (MI ? – MO ?).  Found in Trevorton Civil War veterans’ list, p. 54.

[CW#W053.5] Lyman Weaver (18xx-xxxx) ——–  18th Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency of 1862), Company B, ? (MI ? – MO ?).  Found in Trevorton Civil War veterans’ list, p. 54.

[CW#W053.7] Samuel Weaver (18xx-xxxx) ——–  18th Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency of 1862), Company B, ? (MI ? – MO ?).    Found in Trevorton Civil War veterans’ list, p. 54.

[CW#W056.5] John Webber (1841-xxxx) ——– 210th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, Private (MI 16 Sep 1864 – Deserted 19 Sep 1864).    Enrolled: Harrisburg.  MI: Camp Curtin.  Deserted.

[CW#W057.5] John Weest (1845-xxxx) ——–   210th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, Private (MI 10 Sep 1864 – Deserted 17 Sep 1864).    Enr: Harrisburg.  MI: Camp Curtin.  Deserter.

[CW#W059.5] John Weidenhafer (18xx-xxxx) ——– 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company C   Found in Trevorton Civil War veterans’ list, p. 54.

[CW#W059.7] Daniel Weikle (18xx-xxxx) ——– 172nd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company K, ?    Found in Trevorton Civil War veterans’ list, p. 54.

[CW#W062] Augustus Weisner (1821-1898) ——– 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A, Private (MI 9 Sep 1861 – MO Surgeon’s Certificate of Disability 29 Sep 1864).  NARA M554-R30.  Enrolled:  Lancaster.  MI:  Harrisburg.  Re-enlisted Blaine’s Crossroads, Tennessee, 1 Jan 1864.  Scull fracture, Petersburg, 28 Jun 1864.  Discharged on Surgeon’s Certificate of Disability (SCD)  at Philadelphia, 14 Jul 1865?  Not married.  Born:  Germany (Immigrant).   Buried:  Dayton National Cemertery, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio.    Lived in Veterans’ Home (Dayton).  Occupation:  Laborer.  Residence:  Lancaster County.    AKA:  Wesner or August.

[CW#W063] James M. Weist (1843-1923) ——– 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company B, Private (MI 31 Oct 1861 – MO Surgeon’s Certificate of Disability 9 Dec 1862).  NARA M554-R129.  Discharged on Surgeon’s Certificate of Disability (SCD), 9 Dec 1862. Married:  Elmira Wald.   Buried:  Trinity Church Cemetery, Dalmatia, Northumberland County.  Found in Dalmatia Bicentennial Book as a Civil War veteran.  Occupation:  Clerk.  Residence in 1861: Dauphin County.  AKA:  Wiest.

[CW#W064.3] Emanuel Weitzel (18xx-xxxx) ——– 149th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company F,    Found in Trevorton Civil War veterans’ list, p. 54.

[CW#W064.5] Godfrey Weitzel (1835-1884) ——– General.  Died: Philadelphia.    AKA: Gottfried.

[CW#W084.5] Samuel Adam Wesner (1838-1904) ——- 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company C, Private (MI 9 Sep 1861 – MO 30 Jul 1865).  6th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company G, Private (MI 22 Apr 1861 – MO Jul 1861).   NARA M554-R130.  Enrolled: Llewellyn.  MI: Harrisburg.  Enrolled 2nd: Schuylkill Haven.  MI 2nd: Harrisburg.  Re-enlisted at Blaine’s Crossroads, Tennessee, 1 Jan 1864.   Married:  Elizabeth Mary Swank.   Buried:  German Protestant Cemetery, Mahanoy Township, Schuylkill County.  Occupation: Laborer.  Residence: Foster Township.  Tragedy: Killed at colliery.  Tragedy: Son Samuel hurt in train accident.   AKA: Wasner, Wessner, and Wisner.

[CW#W085] Emanuel Wetzel (18xx-xxxx) ——– 172nd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company F, Private (MI ? – MO ?).  ? 149th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company ?, ? (MI ? – MO ?).    Name obtained from e-mail correspondence on blog.

[CW#W085.5] Godfrey Wetzel (1835-1884) ——– General.  Died: Philadelphia.   AKA:  Gottfried.

[CW#W087.5] Charles White (1842-xxxx) ——– 210th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, Private (MI 16 Sep1864 – Deserted 22 Sep 1864).  Enrolled: Harrisburg.  MI: Camp Curtin.  Deserter.

[CW#W088.5] John Claude White (1829-1902) ——– 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry, Headquarters, Captain, Major (MI 23 Aug 1861 – Resigned 15 Jul 1863).  16th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company K, Private (MI 23 Apr 1861 – MO ?).   NARA M554-R130.  Enroled: Pottsville.  MI: Washington, D.C.  Promoted to Major from Captain of Company L, 1 Dec 1862     Born: England (Immigrant).  Married:  Mary Brown.   Buried:  Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County.    Residence: Schuylkill County.  Residence in 1900: Branchdale, Schuylkill County.  Residence in 1880: Hegins.  Found in Schuylkill County Biography, p. 230.

[CW#W091] Franklin Wiehry (1837-1864) ——- 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A, Private (MI 9 Sep 1861 – Died 28 Sep 1864).  NARA M554-R131.  Enrolled: Donaldson, Schuylkill County.  MI:  Harrisburg.  Re-enlisted Blaine’s Crossroads, Tennessee, 1 Jan 1864.  Died of disease, 28 Sep 1864.  Buried:  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.  AKA:  Weihry, Wheiry, or Wehry.

[CW#W093.5] Thomas Thornburg Wierman (1813-1887) —— Not a Civil War veteran.  Married:  Emily Victorine Piollet.  Buried:  Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, Dauphin County.   Found in Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, p. 295 (portrait, p. 647).

[CW#W097.5] John H. Wiest (18xx-xxxx) ——– 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company F, ?  Found in Trevorton Civil War veterans’ list, p. 54.

[CW#W099.5] Charles Wightman (18xx-xxxx) ——– 18th Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency of 1862), Company B, ? (MI ? – MO ?).  Found in Trevorton Civil War veterans’ list, p. 54.

[CW#W103] Orlando Bolivar Wilcox (1823-1907) ——– Officer (Brigadier General). Served 9th Army Corps, 1st Division.  Medal of Honor, First Bull Run.  General.   Born:  Michigan.  Buried:  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.

[CW#W103.5] Edward Augustus Wild (1825-1891) ——– General.

[CW#W103.7] William Wildermuth (1842-1928) ——- 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company C, Private, Corporal (MI 9 Sep 1861 – MO 30 Jul 1865).  NARA M554-R131.  Enrolled: Schuylkill Haven.  MI: Harrisburg.  Disability Reported in 1883 Pension List:  Gunshot wound right leg.  Re-enlisted Blaine’s Crossroads, Tennessee, 1 Jan 1864.  Promoted to Corporal, 16 May 1865.   Married: Mary Ann Scheck.  Died: Schuylkill Haven.   Burie: Union Cemetery, Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill County.  Residence: Scuylkill Haven.  Occupation: Boatman.  Tragedy: possiibly had fingers smashed on railroad.    AKA:  Wiltermuth.

[CW#W106.5] Alexander “Alex” Williams (1839-1916) ——– 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company C, Private (MI 9 Sep 1861 – MO Surgeon’s Certificate of Disability, date unknown).  1st New Jersey Cavalry, Company D, Company L, Private (MI 6 Oct 1863 – MO 24 Jul 1865).  NARA M554-R1312.  Enrolled: Schuylkill Haven.  MI: Harrisburg.  NARA M550-R26.   Occupation: Boatman.  Residence: Schuylkill Haven.

[CW#W108.5] Charles F. Williams (1846-1916) ——– 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company C, Private (MI 19 Feb 1864 – MO 30 Jul 1865).  NARA M554-R132.  Enrolled: Pottsville.  MI: Pottsville.  Disability Reported in 1890: Wounded – Collar Bone.  Married:  Elizabeth J. Moyer.   Port Clinton Cemetery, Port Clinton, Schuylkill County.  Occupation: Boatman.  Residence: Pottsville.

[CW#W109.3] Edward Charles Williams (1820-1900) ——– Dauphin County Militia (pre-Civil War).  9th Pennsylvania Cavalry,  Headquarters, Colonel (MI 21 Nov 1861 – Resigned 9 Oct 1862).  Mexican War.  General of pre-Civil War Militia.  NARA M554-R132. Organized Camp Curtin.  Enrolled: Harrisburg.  MI: Harrisburg:  Promoted to Full Colonel, 21 Nov 1861.  First commissioned officer of U.S. Volunteers, 19 Apr 1861.  Breveted General.  Born: Philadelphia.  Married 1st?: Selina Heltzel.  Married 2nd:  Mrs. ?  Buried: St. John’s U.B. Cemetery, Snyder County.  In same grave, Charles W. Ounifer (1846-1903), unknown?   Mexican War Pension #15885?  Found in Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County.  Present at Gratztown Militia Encampments.  Head of Dauphin County Civil War Monument Committee.

[CW#W109.4] John Williams (1837-xxxx) ——– 210th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, Private (MI 15 Sep 1864 – Deserted 1 Apr 1865).  Enrolled: Harrisburg.  MI: Harrisburg.  Deserter.

[CW#W109.5] Patrick Williams (1839-xxxx) ——- 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company C, Private (MI 9 Sep 1861 – MO Died)   NARA M554-R132.  Enrolled: Schuylkill Haven.  MI: Harrisburg.  Re-enlisted at Blaine’s Crossroads, Tennessee, 1 Jan 1864.  Captured as prisoner (POW) and died as a prisoner, date unknown. Residence: Minersville.  Occupation: Miner.

[CW#W113.5] William Williams (1843-xxxx) ——– 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company C, Private (MI 9 Sep 1861 – MO 30 Jul 1865).  NARA M554–R132.  Enrolled: Schuylkill Haven.   MI: Harrisburg.  Re-enlisted at Blaine’s Crossroads, Tennessee, 1 Jan 1864.  Captured at Spotsylvania (POW) and held at Florence, South Carolina, and Andersonville, Georgia.  Born: New York.  Single (never married).  Occupation: Boatman.  Residence: Schuylkill Haven.  Lived in Veterans’ Home.

[CW#W122] Henry Williard (18xx-xxxx) ——- 107th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company B, Private (MI 13 Apr 1865 – MO 15 Jul 1865). Residence in 1890:  Lykens Township.

[CW#W138.5] John Winebrenner (1797-1860) ——–  Not a Civil War veteran.  Married:  Charlotte . ?  Married 2nd:  Mary H. ?  Possibility sons served in Civil War.  Buried:  Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, Dauphin County.  Found in Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, p. 263 (portrait, p. 611).  Anti-slavery advocate prior to Civil War.  Possibly involved in Underground Rzilroad.  Occupation:  Minister at Bethel Church, Harrisburg.

[CW#W142] Jesse Wingert (1833-xxxx) ——- 199th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company e, 2nd Lieutenant (MI 24 Sep1864 – Discharged 15 Dec 1864 by General Order).  99th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company L, ? (MI ? – Transfered to 199th Pennsylvania Infantry, 24 Nov 1864).   NARA M554-R133.  Enolled:  Harrisburg.  MI:  Harrisburg.   Married: Barbara ?    Occupation:  Bricklayer.  Residence:  Harrisburg.  AKA:  Wingate.

[CW#W143.5] John Wingert (1845-1910) ——–  26th Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency of 1863), Company K, Private (MI 20 Jun 1863 – MO 30 Jul 1863).  Enrolled: Millersburg.  MI: Harrisburg.    Buried:  ? Wiconisco Cemetery, Wiconisco, Dauphin County.  Two different with same name, records could be co-mingled.  AKA:  John W. Wingert.

[CW#W144] Martin B. Wingert (1830-1899) ——– 165th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A, 1st Lieutenant (MI 4 Nov 1862 – MO 28 Jun 1863).  NARA M554-R133.  Enrolled:  Chambersburg. MI: Chambersburg.  Promoted from Sergeant to 1st Lieutenant, 27 May 1863.  Married 1st:  Catharine?   Married 2nd: ? Rebecca ?  Buried:  Topeka, Kansas.  Moved to Kansas after Civil War.

[CW#W145] Salmon M. Wingert (1846-1878) ——– 127th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company G, Private (MI 9 Aug 1862 – MO 29 May 1863).  20th Pennsylvania Cavalry , Company D & Company A, 1st Sergeant (MI 16 Jan 1864 – MO 13 Jan 1865).  NARA M554-R133.  Enrolled:  Harrisburg.  MI:  Harrisburg.  Transfered to 1st Regiment Provisional Cavalry.  Enrolled: Mechanicsburg.  MI: Harrisburg.     Died: Kansas City, Kansas.   Buried:  Oak Grove Cemetery, Kansas City, Wyandote County, Kansas.    Occupation:  Printer.  Residence:  Cumberland Co.  Tragedy:  Wagon Accident.  Friend: Jason Robinson, 47th Pennsylvania Infantry, killed in South Carolina, Oct 1862 (see Findagrave obituary).  AKA:  Salomon, Solomon and Wingart.

[CW#W147] James Winter (18xx-xxxx) ——–  Alias:  James Hunter.

[CW#W147.5] John Winterode (18xx-xxxx) ——– 210th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, Private (MI 10 Sep 1864 – MO by GO 17 May 1865).  Enrolled: Lewistown.  MI: Camp Curtin.  Wounded at Dabney’s Mills, Virginia, 6 Feb 1865.  No pension index card located.

[CW#W148.5] Franklin Felix Wise (1833-1916) ——– 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company C, Private (MI 9 Sep 1861 – MO Surgeon’s Certificate of Disability for wounds, date unknown).  5th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company F, Private (MI 26 Apr 1861 – MO 25 Jul 1861).  NARA M554-R133.  Enrolled: Schuylkill Haven.  MI: Harrisburg.  Disability Reported in 1890: Gunshot wound, weak eyes, rheumatism.  In a convalencent camp, 27 Jan 1863.  Born:  France (Immigrant).  Married: Elizabeth A. ?    Buried:  Cedar Hill Cemetery, Newark, Licinig County, Ohio.  Occupation: Boatman.  Residence: Schuylkill County.  Lived in Veterans’ Home, Dayton, Ohio.

[CW#W156] William H. Withington (1835-1903) ——– 17th Michigan Infantry, Headquarters, Colonel (MI ? – MO ?).  Medal of Honor, First Bull Run.

[CW#W159.5] Henry H. “Harry” Witman (1837-xxxx) ——- 6th Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency of 1862), Company E, Sergeant (MI 12 Sep 1862 – MO 27 Sep 1862).  Enrolled: Halifax.  MI: Harrisburg.  Married:  Amelia Jackson.  Residence in 1862:  Millersburg.  Residence in 1900: Willamstown.

[CW#160.5] Henry Orth Witman (1830-1892) ——- 6th Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency of 1862), Company E, 1st Lieutenant (MI 13 Sep 1862 – MO 27 Sep 1862).  36th Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency 1863), Company C, Captain (MI 4 Jul 1863 – MO 11 Aug 1863).  Militia only.  Medical examiner in pension office late in life. Married:  Frederica Krause.  Died: Washington, D.C.  Brother Luther R. Witman died in Civil War.  Also brothers Edward Witman and Jarred Witman also served in Civil War.   Practiced Medicine (Physician) in Halifax for 40 years.  Found in Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, p. 358 (& portrait). Whitman.

[CW#W181.5] ? Wolf (18xx-xxxx) ——– U.S. Soldier ?  Widow’s Residence in 1890: Jordan Township, Northumberland County.   Widow: Laura ?

[CW#W184.5] Franklin Wolf (1849-xxxx) ——–   Not a Civil War veteran.  Married 1st: Elizabeth Hoke.  Married 2nd: Kate Ober.   Found in Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, p. 815 (portrait, p. 773).

[CW#W190] Michael Wolf (1838-1884) ——– 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A, Private (MI 6 Apr 1864 – MO Surgeon’s Certificate of Disability 6 Jul 1864).  NARA M554-R134.  Brother Isaac Wolf in same regiment.  Amputee – gunshot wound, left arm.  Amputated, Carver General Hospital, Washington, D.C, 9 May 1864.  Discharged on Surgeon’s Certificate of Disability (SCD), 6 Jul 1864. Married:  Elizabeth Young.  See also Michael Wolf Jr. (possibly the same person).

[CW#W199.3] Benjamin “Ben” Wood (1820-1900) ——– Member of Congress.  Unknown if in military.  Buried:  Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, Queens County, New York.  See History:  Roman Eagle Lodge, Danville, Virginia..

[CW#W199.6] Fernando Wood (1812-1881) ——– Member of Congress.  Unknown if in military.   Brother was Ben Wood.  Buried:  Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York   Also served as Mayor of New York City.  Mentioned in History of Roman Eagle Lodge of Danville, Virginia.

[CW#W202.5] George W. Wooley (18xx-xxxx) ——– 18th Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency of 1863), Company B, ? (MI ? – MO ?).  172nd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company D    Found in Trevorton Civil War veterans’ list, p. 54.

[CW#W205] Franklin Workman (1847-1864) ——– 96th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company G, Private (MI 22 Feb 1864 – Killed in Action 10 May 1864).  NARA M554-R135.  Killed (KIA) at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, 10 May 1864.   Buried:  Wilderness Burial Grounds, Virginia (National Cemetery?).  Named on Lykens G.A.R. Monument as killed in war – Private.

[CW#W206] Jacob Workman (1821-xxxx) ——– 173rd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company F, Private (MI 13 Oct 1862 – MO 16 Aug 1863).  NARA M554-R135.  Residence in 1890:  Tower City.  Disability Reported in 1890:  Wounded? – eyes affected?  Named on Tower City Veterans’ Memorial.

[CW#W209.5] Horatio G. Wright (1820-1899) ——- General.

[CW#W209.6] John Wright (1845-xxxx) ——— 210th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, Private (MI 15 Sep 1864 – Deserted 22 Sep 1864).   Enrolled: Harrisburg.  MI: Camp Cameron.  Deserter.

[CW#W209.65] John Wright (18xx-xxxx) ——– 18th Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency of 1862), Company B, ? (MI ? – MO ?).  Found in Trevorton Civil War veterans’ list, p. 54.

[CW#W209.7] Josiah Wright (1834-1924) ——– 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I, Company C, Private, Corporal (MI-I 25 Sep 1861 – Discharged 3 Sep 1862, MI-C 11 Mar 1864 -MO 30 Jul 1865).  NARA M554-R135.  Enrolled:  Schuylkill Haven.  Enrolled:  Harrisburg.  Promoted to Corporal, date unknown.   Married:  Susan E. ?  Died: Wilmington, Delaware.   Buried:  ? Cemetery, Camden, Camden County, New Jersey. Occupation 1st:  Brakeman.  Residence 1st:  Schuylkill Haven.  Occupation 2nd: Laborer.  Residence 2nd:  Montgomery County.  Remote possibility that this could be two different people, records co-mingled.

[CW#W209.8] Imbeck Wynn (18xx-xxxx) ——– 172nd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H    Found in Trevorton Civil War veterans’ list, p. 54.

[CW#W210] Webster Wynn (1800-xxxx) ——– Captain of Gratztown Militia before Civil War. Married 1st: Fanny Boll.  Married 2nd: Barbara ?   Widow Barbara Wynn married Ritchard Cutchall, a Civil War veteran. Found in Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, p. 862.  Lived in Rush Township in 1850.  Occupation: Carpenter.

[CW#Y003] John H. Yeager (1842-xxxx) ——– 10th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company F, Private (MI 26 Apr 1861 – MO 31 Jul 1861).  NARA M554-R135.  Residence in 1861: Berrysburg, Dauphin County.  Occupation in 1861:  Clerk.

[CW#Y009.5] Frederick W. Yingst (1843-1920) ——- 127th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A, Private (MI 26 Jul 1862 – MO 8 May 1863). 194th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company G, 2nd Lieutenant (MI 20 Jul 1864 – MO 6 Nov 1864).  78th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company D, 1st Sergeant (MI 17 Feb 1865 – MO 2 Jun 1865).  Enrolled: Harisburg.  MI: Harrisburg. Married: Theresa Yonder.  Brother-in-law:  William H. Hoover.  Occupation: Clerk.  Found in Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, p. 490.

[CW#Y012.5] James Young (1826-xxxx) ——– 145th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I, Private (MI 17 Sep 1863 – MO GO 21 Jun 1865).  53rd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I, ? (MI 17 Sep 1863 – MO absent).  NARA M554-R136.  Enrolled: Reading.  MI: Reading.  Transferred to 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry, date unknown.  Captured as prisoner at Petersburg (POW) and held from 16 Jun 1864 to 9 Apr 1865.  Held at Andersonville, Georgia.   Son: James Monroe lived in Tower City.   Occupation: Not stated.  Residence: Reading.  AKA:  Youngs.

[CW#Y012.8] Walter S. Young (1854-xxxx) ——–  Father:  Moses R. Young, was Justice of the Peace in Lykens Borough (1860-1861) & later Associate Judge of Dauphin County.   StepMother:  Amelia [Maurer] Young was brother of Henry Maurer of Gratz & Lykens, served in Civil War.   Found in Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, p. 1156 (Wiconisco Township).

[CW#Z010] Ezra Zeluff (1843-xxxx) ——- 50th Pensylvania Infantry, Company A, Private (MI 8 Dec 1864 – 21 Aug 1865).  NARA M554-R136.  Drafted.  MI: Troy, Bradford County.  MO from hospital.  Moved to Nebraska after the war.   AKA:  Eznua or Ezrua.

[CW#Z012] David Zerbe (1826-1908) ——– 172nd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company K, Private (MI 28 Oct 1862 – MO 1 Aug 1863). NARA M554-R136.   Married:  Lydia Ressler.  Buried:  St. Paul’s U.C.C. Cemetery, Urban, Northumberland County.  Named in Klingerstown Bicentennial Book as a Civil War veteran.   AKA:  Yerbe.

[CW#Z012.5] George Zerbe (1824-1875) ——–  172nd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company D, ? (MI 28 Cct 1862 – MO 1 Jul 1863).  Not found in Civil War databases.  Info from Pennsylvania Veterans’ Burial Card.  Also possible service in 1847, 3rd U.S. Infantry (see US Army Registers of Enlistments).  Married:  Phebe ?  Father of Jonathan Zerbe.  Stone Valley Cemetery, Hickory Corners, Lower Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County.  Found in Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, p. 1114.  “At the outbreak of the Rebellion he enlisted in the Union Army and served until the close of the war,  After his discharge….”    Zerby.

[CW#Z012.8] Henry Zerbe (1844-1914) ——– 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company L, Private.  NARA M554-R136.  Enrolled: Northumberland County.  MI: Harrisburg.  Discharged as “super-numerary” by General Order #83.  Promoted to Corporal, 1 Jun 1865. Married:  Phoebe Allman (or Alleman)   Buried:  Shamokin Cemetery, Shamokin, Northumberland County.       Found in Northumberland County Biographical Annals, p. 490 (“a soldier of the CW”).   AKA:  Zarbe and Zerby.

[CW#Z013] Henry S. Zerbe (1836-1879) ——–  74th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company C, Private (MI 17 Mar 1865 – MO 29 Aug 1865).  NARA M554-R136.  Widow’s Residence in 1890:  Mandata, Northumberland County.  MI: Harrisburg.    Born: Lower Mahanoy Township. Widow:  Sarah Ann Messner.   Buried:  Peifer’s Evangelical Church Cemetery, Herndon, Northumberland County.  Residence: Jackson Township.  Occupation: Laborer.   AKA:  Zerby.

[CW#Z014] John K. Zerbe (1838-1922) ——– 173rd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company F, Corporal (MI 1 Nov 1862 – MO ?  ).  50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A, Private (MI 1 Nov 1862 – MO 20 Jul 1865). NARA M554-R136.  Enrolled:  Co F, 173rd Pennsylvania Infantry for 9 months.  MI:  Harrisburg.  Re-enlisted in Co. A, 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, 1 Mar 1864 at Pottsville as Private.  Born:  Schuylkill County.  Married:  Elizabeth Mundinger.  Bucyrus Mausoleum, Bucyrus, Crawford County.  Possibly more than one with same name, records co-mingled.  Occupataion:  Carpenter.  Applied for pension from Ohio.  AKA:  Zerby.

[CW#Z014.5] Jonathan Zerbe (1857-xxxx) ———    Not a Civil War veteran.  Father:  George Zerby, served in Union Army in Civil War.  Found in Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, p. 1114 (Washington Township).  AKA:  Zerby.

[CW#Z015] Lazarus Zerbe (1827-1905) ——— 17th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, Private (MI 17 Sep 1862 – MO 28 Sep 1862).   Residence in 1890:  Williams Township.  Married:  Louise Updegrave.  Buried:  Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, Williamstown, Dauphin County. AKA:  Zerby.

[CW#Z016] Levi Zerbe (1831-1887) ——– 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company L, Company H, Private, Blacksmith (MI 29 Oct 1862 – MO 11 Aug 1865).  NARA M5544-R136.  Residence of Widow in 1890:  Dalmatia, Northuberland County.   Married: Polly ?   Buried:  Trinity Church Cemetery, Dalmatia, Northumberland County. AKA:  Zerby, Zerbey, Levie.

[CW#Z017] William Zerbe (1846-1864) ——– ? 208th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company ?, Private (MI ? – MO ?).  ? 151st Pennsylvania Infantry, Company G, ? (MI ? – MO ?).   NARA M554-R136.  Killed in war, date & place not given.  Brother of Jacob Zerby who also served in Civil War.   Buried:  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.  AKA:  Zerby.

[CW#Z018] Edward Zerby (1838-xxxx) ——–  Unknown.  Private.  Named on Lykens G.A.R. Monument as a Civil War vet.

[CW#Z019.5] Henry Zerby (1835-1881) ——– 62nd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company K, Private (MI 15 Jul 1863 – Trans 2 Jul 1864).  155th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company B, Private (Transfered 2 Jul 1864 – MO Surgeon’s Certificate of Disability 2 Jun 1865).  NARA M554-R136.  Enrolled: Baltimore.  Drafted.  Recruited from Washington County, Pennsylvania.  MO by General Order (G.O), 2 Jun 1865, Surgeon’s Certificate of Disability (SCD).  Transfered from 62nd Pennsylvania Infantry, 2 Jul 1864.  Married:  Annie E. Allen.  AKA:  Zeely.

[CW#Z026.3] Conrad O. Zimmerman (1820-1895) ——– Not CW.  Married 1st:  Mary Gonder.  Married 2nd:  Annie E. Ward.  Found in Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, p. 560; portrait, p. 233.

[CW#Z030] George Zimmerman (1834-1864) ——— 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A, Private (Mi 29 Feb 1864 – MO 22 Sep 1864).  NARA M554-R136.  Enrolled: Pottsville.  MI: Pottsville.   Died of wounds, 22 Sep 1864, Davis Isle, New York.  Married:  Elizabeth ?  Buried:  Cypress Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York.  Found in Trevorton Civil War veterans’ list, p. 54.  Residence: Schuylkill County.  Occupation: Carpenter.  Possible records error in that a George Zimmerman was living in Perry County in 1880, a carpenter & wife Elizabeth.  Widow living in Dornsife in 1890??

[CW#Z031] J. H. Zimmerman (1842-xxxx) ——– 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A, Corporal (MI 25 Feb 1864 – MO 30 Jul 1865).  Residence in 1864:  Llewellen.  There is also a Jacob Zimmerman in the same reigment/company – a different person.  Records could be co-mingled.

[CW#Z032] Jacob Zimmerman (1833-1908) ——– 210th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A, Private (MI 15 Sep 1864 – MO 30 May 1865). NARA  M554-R136.  Served in Brigade Ambulance Corps.  Married:  Sybilla Yoder.   Buried:  Fairview Cemetery, Enders, Dauphin County.

[CW#Z036] Lewis Zimmerman (1842-1893) ——— 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A, Company C, Private (MI 25 Feb 1864 – MO Surgeon’s Certificate of Disability 13 Jan 1865).     M554-R136.  Enrolled:  Pottsville.  MI: Pottsville.   Disability Reported in 1890:  Loss of left arm, amputee 3″ below elbow, wound in left hip.  Discharged for wounds received in action, 14 Jun 1865.  Buried:  Reformed Cemetery, Branch Township, Schuylkill County.  Residence: Schuylkill County.  Residence in 1890: Branch Township, Schuylkill County.

[CW#Z037] Samuel A. Zimmerman (1821-1894) ——– 210th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, Private (MI 6 Sep 1864 -MO 30 May 1865). NARA M554-R136.  Enr: Harrisburg.  MI: Camp Curtin.  Brother Christian Zimmerman served at same time. Married:  Lucetta ?   Buried:  Straw’s Cemetery, Enders, Dauphin County.  AKA:  “S. A.”

[CW#Z041] David F. Zubler (18xx-xxxx) ——– 80th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I, ?  Found in Trevorton Civil War veterans’ list, p. 54.

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