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Posted By Norman Gasbarro on January 3, 2012

Henry Keiser Myers (1841-1900) was born in Perry County, Pennsylvania, the son of John Myers,, a farmer, and Elizabeth [Keiser] Myers.  He was the grandson of Revolutionary War soldier Philip Myers.  Henry’s early life was spent on his father’s farm, and as the Civil War approached, Henry was employed as a school teacher.

On 21 September 1861, at Duncannon, Pennsylvania, Henry K. Myers enrolled in the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company A, as a Sergeant, and then reported for muster at Harrisburg on 3 October 1861.  Military information indicates he was 5 foot 11 inches tall, had blue eyes, fair complexion, and brown hair.  On 27 May 1863 he received a promotion to 1st Lieutenant, and was transferred to Company L.  On 10 Mar 1865, as the war approached its end, Henry was captured at Solemn Grove, North Carolina. Family records indicate that during the war he was held for a time at Libby Prison.  On 18 Jul 1865, he was mustered out with his company.  Information from his obituary states that he was in Sherman’s March to the Sea and also participated in all the various battles with the Army of the Cumberland.  Family records also indicate that prior to his discharge, he received another promotion – to Captain – but the promotion never took effect before he was mustered out, so he couldn’t claim the new rank.

It is not know if Henry became interested in medicine while in the service or if he assisted in the performance of surgeries during the war.  One family source states that he had an interest in and began studying medicine prior to the war.  Either he claimed, or his fellow Lykens G.A.R. members assumed that Henry held the rank of “Surgeon” during the war and his name appears on the Lykens G.A.R. Monument as a founding member of the Heilner Post – with the rank of “Surgeon.”

Henry’s formal medical training began with Dr. Henry McCaslin of Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.  He then took lectures at Burlington, Vermont, and at the University of Maryland, graduating in March 1867.  His medical career began formally in York County, Pennsylvania, and this was followed by a stint in Augusta, Pennsylvania.  Shortly after 1870, he settled in Lykens and began a practice there which lasted for about 18 years.

Dr. Henry K. Myers married Harriet Elizabeth Shipman (1849-1927) in 1869.  She was from Fisher’s Ferry, Pennsylvania.  The couple had two known children, Henry Guy Myers (born in 1873) and Joseph Porter Myers (born in 1875), both in Lykens.  During President Cleveland’s first administration, Henry K. Myers was appointed postmaster of Lykens.  During his time in Lykens, he also was a founding member of the Heilner Post G.A.R., and as previously mentioned, his name appears on the monument as such.  His interest in the community extended to serving as President of the Lykens Valley Savings Fund and Loan Corporation.

Late in the 1880s, Dr. Myers decided to re-locate to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, where he stayed for about one year, and then relocated again to Edinburgh, Indiana.   His sons also re-located to the same area – one working as a medical doctor in Indiana and the other as a manufacturing executive in Indiana and Illinois.  Dr Myers died in 1900 and is buried in the Rest Haven Cemetery, Edinburgh, Indiana.

Information for this post was provided through on-line sources including Ancestry.com and the Pennsylvania Archives.  The portrait of Dr. Myers was contributed by Sally Reiner of the Lykens-Wiconisco Historical Society and is from a county history published in 1883.

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Posted By Norman Gasbarro on January 2, 2012

The Good Tannery was located at the west end of Gratz.  In 1842, a “tanyard” was owned by Daniel Good and Samuel Ritter but tax records show that the property on which the Good Tannery was located was not conveyed to Daniel Good until 1843.  Good had originally settled in Loyalton and operated a tannery there before establishing his main operation in Gratz.

The three elements needed to operate a tannery were the bark of oak trees, hides of animals and power.  In Loyalton, the tanning operation was powered by water, but in Gratz, no streams being available in the new tannery location, the power was provided by horses.

According to information found in A Comprehensive History of the Town of Gratz Pennsylvania, the Good Tannery was important in the commercial and mercantile interests of Gratz in that the resident boot and shoe makers and saddle and harness makers needed a steady supply of tanned hides.  Plasterers also needed animal hair which was a by-product of the process.

Several pictures of the Good Tannery operation have survived and are available at the Gratz Historical Society.  The one shown above is of the main tannery building and was probably taken in the late nineteenth century.  Several skins, tanned at the Good Tannery, are on display in the Gratz Historical Society Museum.

Also available at the Gratz Historical Society is the account book of Jeremiah Good (1836-1905), which lists all transactions from 3 May 1858 through April 1865 – including the entire period of the Civil War.  Jeremiah was the son of Daniel Good  (1809-1870) and it was Jeremiah who operated the tannery during the Civil War.  No record has been found of Civil War service for Jeremiah Good.

The Good family was quite prosperous and owned several other properties in Gratz.  The family history will be further discussed in relation to those properties.

Part of one of the pages of the account book is shown above – with surnames Romberger, Good, Umholtz, Shade and Witmer being prominently noted on the example pictured.  Credits and debits were noted in this book with each account given a unique number – more than 250 separate accounts kept!  The prices and types of materials were carefully noted.  The book consists of 360 pages of these transactions – and is a treasure of information.  The name of nearly every person in Gratz as well as the surrounding township appears in this book.  At the present time, the account book has has not been indexed or transcribed into a database format.  It is a project that awaits a willing volunteer.

At this time, it is not known when the tannery ceased operations or when the buildings were demolished.  There is an historical marker on the site, which was placed by family members John W. Good and Sarah Good Miller.

This is part 28 of an ongoing series on Gratz during the Civil War.  Some of the information for this post was taken from the book A Comprehensive History of the Town of Gratz Pennsylvania.  

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Posted By Norman Gasbarro on January 1, 2012

Happy New Year 2012, from Gratz, Pennsylvania.

A selection of editorial comments from Pennsylvania newspapers is presented here to show the mood in the state and nation at the start of the New Year 1862, 150 years ago!

First, from the North American and United States Gazette,  1 Jan 1862:

THE NEW YEAR

This day one year ago we paused upon the threshold of the year 1861 with a degree of doubt and uncertainty respecting the future, so totally new to us in America as to be remarkable.  The secession of the south had begun, rebellion was threatened, and it was doubtful even whether the peaceful inauguration of the new Administration would be allowed.  Treason was in the government halls, the great departments of State were managed direct by the most — of all the traitors.  A weak, timid, — and old man was at the head of the government.

Yet even then we did not know half the extent of the danger, and now when we look back upon the field it seems wonderful that the plans of the conspirators, so ably contrived, and so well adapted to the emergency did not succeed.  But the peril was passed.  Despite all obstacles, the new administration was inaugurated, and the Departments steadily subjected to a purifying process which lent new vigor to the government.  It was not like the ordinary change of personnel in our national government -it was as though we had to create an entire new government.  The rebels had all the benefit of the money, arms, vessels, army and navy officers, while we did not know whom to trust, where to look for money, or what to touch first.

 That out of this wreck we have recreated the great Republic, and made it stronger and greater than ever, is something of an achievement.  But who, on the 1st of January, 1861, could have foreseen half of what we have experienced in this year?  And now that we have gone through it, who, standing to-day on the threshold of the year 1862, can hazard a profecy as to the future of this country?  That we may be beset by a new and greater peril is possible; that we shall be equal to them no one can doubt.  One thing every patriotic heart will ardently look forward to – the downfall of the rebellion and the restoration of peace.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer, 1 January 1862:

“A Happy New Year”

As these lines are committed to press the dying knell of a departed year is still lingering in the air, and midnight watchers are hailing each other with the joyous greeting of a “Happy New Year.”  Happy may it be to all true hearts, from careless childhood to venerated age; happy to the brave men whose rigid right arms are raised in defense of to the justest cause that ever appealed to the favor of Heaven; and thrice felicitous may it prove, in bringing to a happy end the myriad of troubles which, during the year gone by, threatened at once the unity and the life of our Republic.

This is a day sacred to Retrospect.  It is the day of all others – except that which brings bitter memories to the bed of death – when the moral vision is most certain to be turned inward upon the soul.  It is a day devoted to holy Resolution; for upon this day the penitent transgressor is most likely to renew his broken vow to lead a better life.  It is a day, too, when the idle and prodigal, resolves that, in the day to come, he will see to it that he will have no future cause to “mourn over days misspent, and fair occasions gone forever by.”  May all such resolutions, made to-day, attain the “consummation, most devoutly to be wished.”

It is a day, too, when the American patriot will turn a sorrowing eye along the troubled track of his country’s history since the dawn of the last new year.  It was on that day that the Administration yielded its tardy convictions to the appalling fact that the streets of Washington were filled with traitors – that they were in the chambers of legislation and the high places of Government, plotting, not alone the segregation of individual States, but the seizure of the capital itself, and the utter subversion of Government, Constitution and all.

Since that day what once bright names have been consigned to an abyss of undying infamy!  What glorious titles have been exalted to immortal honor!  Within that year what national trials have been endured; what perils have been escaped; and what wonders have been accomplished by the aroused patriotism of the people of the land!  These will be the themes of conversation to-day at every table and in every home.  There we leave them, glad to have it in our power to repeat the poet’s words, that in spite of treason and rebellion, in in the midst of plots and counterplots, here in the free North, at least, “the holy stream of human happiness still rolls on.”

From the Public Ledger, 1 January 1862:

THE NEW YEAR

To hope for a happy New Year seems so natural as to be almost commonplace.  And yet it is one of the great advantages of marking off time into years by astronomical occurrence, that it seemed renewed to inspire this very feeling.  Whatever connects man with the past and the future elevates him.  One of the most marked peculiarities of the present period, and one of the most hopeful, is that, while we have clouds, and difficulties and darkness before us, all of those clouds which seemed most threatening a year ago have vanished.  New difficulties no doubt threaten, but those we most feared on 1st January 1861, have been measurably subdued.  When a pain shifts it is more easily managed than when the symptoms remain the same and in the same spot.  In this respect, we seem to have lived many years in one.  A year ago and the danger seemed to be that we shall soon have not a civil war, but no Government left to fight for or to fight with.  Then it was just beginning to be discovered that we had no army or navy, and that the few soldiers in Fort Moultrie had their hands so tied by the traitor Floyd, that Major Anderson had just done the only thing left possible for him to do, namely retired to Fort Sumter.  Even this was complained of, and members of the Cabinet were threatening all sorts of things unless he was at once remanded.

Now there is certainly no lack of strength or energy or fear to assume constitutional power by the Government – no fear of quiet disintegration or dissolution into elementary states.  Then there was no army.  Now we have six hundred and fifty thousand men in arms, and most of them well drilled and capable of almost all that soldiers can do.  Then the South had stolen all our arms and broken up the means of transportation.  Now it is as if they had sowed the dragon’s teeth and not only men, but men ready armed and equipped, had sprung up in their places.  Then we had no navy.  Now we have the most formidable ever got together in so short a time.  Then our credit was at the very lowest ebb.  Clerks were stealing from the Treasury, and yet not enough could be borrowed to pay the  most ordinary expenses.  Now we can borrow hundreds of millions most easily and on better terms that we could borrow one million.  We have, it is true, met with unfriendliness where we had calculated on finding firm and secure friends, but we entrust the estrangement is but momentary, and caused rather by misapprehension that any settled purpose of mischief.  As when the mariner at sea is out of sight of land, and surrounded by cloud and tempest he — the more persistenly by the compass, ever pointing to the pole.  So on entering the New Year we may do it with safety and success providing we are guided in public and private affairs only by the great laws of truth, justice and right, with the charity that thinketh no evil and the love that work — none.  There is an invisible law of right and wrong running through all human actions.  In proportion as we are guided by this we may begin the New Year in faith of a favoring Providence.

Finally, from the Harrisburg Patriot, a weekly in 1862, its first 1862 edition published on 2 January 1862.

Mr. Seward as a Prophet

Mr. Seward may be a very profound statesman, but he has not yet shown that he possesses the gift of prophecy, though he is constantly prophecying.  The great prediction of his life, that this Union cannot endure permanently half slave and half free, is now in the course of trial; and has arrayed against it all the physical and material powers of the nation.  Millions of money, and hundreds of thousands of armed men are devoted to the work of perpetuating the Union of free and slave States.  The chances are against the verification of Seward’s prophecy, which can only be accomplished with the destruction of the country.  If the conflict really proves “irrepressible,” and after every effort is exhausted to preserve the unity of this country, division becomes a fatal necessity, then the evil prophet may were the laurels to which his fatal insight would entitle him; but a ruined people would hold him responsible for his agency in bringing about the verification of the prediction.

At the commencement of this war, Mr. Seward again indulged his prophetic propensity by predicting with and air of careless levity that all this trouble would blow over in sixty days.  This was the utmost limit he would give to rebellion.  But sixty days, and more than twice sixty days have passed, and the rebellion is to all human appearance, more formidable than in the beginning.  The veiled prophet maintains an air od profound foreknowledge, nevertheless.  Not long since he intimated that some signal advantage would be gained within ten days – but twice ten days passed without bringing the promised victory.

The circular letter addressed to the Government of the States advising them to prepare against a foreign invasion, is now regarded in some quarters, as a remarkable evidence of the Secretary of State’s sagacity; but unfortunately for this claim the same letter gave the most positive assurance that a Foreign war was never less probable.  Men were puzzled to understand Mr. Seward’s drift.  There was no reason to apprehend war with England or France, yet it was necessary to make to most extraordinary preparations for war.  But the Secretary had a mysterious way of doing his work – a profound and incomprehensible method.    He foresaw that some difficulty would occur with England similar to the seizure of Mason and Slidell – that the British nation would be indignant at the insult offered their flag – that they would demand reparation and a humiliating apology, which our government could not grant without disgrace – that war would be declared, and that the defenses erected at his suggestion would come as handy as Mrs. Toot’s coffin.  This certainly looks very creditable to the foresight of the Secretary of State; but he has the bad habit of spoiling his own predictions.  From the inner recesses of the State Department there now precedes another prediction that there will be no war with England, and that the Trent affair will be amicably settled.  How this is to be accomplished, whether by protracted negotiations, or a simple apology without surrendering the persons of the rebel envoys, or by abject submission and the return of Mason and Slidell, we are not permitted to know.  We must rest satisfied with the assurance that Mr. Seward is placid and serene, and that war is not probable.  Our confidence in the preservation of pacific relation would be greater is Mr. Seward had not predicted peace, or is a single one of his many prophetic announcements had been verified.

Editorial selections from the newspapers above are available from the on-line resources of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

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Posted By Norman Gasbarro on December 31, 2011

In many ways, 2011 has been a very successful year for the Civil War Research Project. The formal research into the lives and military service of more than 2000 veterans who have some connection to the Lykens Valley area began more than two years ago.  This blog was established slightly more than a year ago and in 2011 a new post was added on a daily basis.  A few days ago, the blog celebrated a milestone as it reached a total of 50,000 visits – not bad for a local historical society!

Coming in 2012 will be a continuation of the posts recognizing the many memorials and monuments to the Civil War, the “walking tour” of Gratz featuring Civil war connections to existing buildings from that era, and an extension of the series of posts on the Battle of Gettysburg.  Posts will also feature individuals as well as the regimental companies that were composed primarily of men from the Lykens Valley area.  A new series of posts will begin on Pennsylvania connections to the Lincoln Assassination as well as a series of guest posts on cultural aspects on the Civil War.   Book reviews, events, stories, documents, and genealogies as well as queries and reflections will also be part of the fare for 2012.

Connecting the people and places of the Lykens Valley with the larger history of the Civil War and of the nation has been an interesting, challenging and rewarding experience.  Plans are to continue the project through the years of the Civil War Sesquicentennial until the year 2015.

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Posted By Norman Gasbarro on December 30, 2011

Today is the final post of the “Best of 2011” series and will feature a revised version of the Lykens G.A.R. Civil War Monument post of 10 December 2010.  The revisions that appear below are the result of careful research by Sally Reiner, who is a member of the newly formed Lykens-Wiconisco Historical Society and the “names” list that is presented here contains all the corrections she has suggested. The original list that was posted here did not present the names exactly as they appeared on the monument.  In some cases the names were difficult to read as a result of dirt that had collected on the plaque or wear that had taken place over time.  In other cases there were errors in transcription.  Finally, the original posted list contained “spelled out” versions of names that were abbreviated on the plaque – or middle initials were added when in fact no middle initials appeared on the plaque.  The list presented with this re-post contains the names exactly as they appear on the plaque – with the exception being that the names are in the format of first name followed by last name rather than last name followed by a comma and then the first name – the latter being the way they appear on the plaque.

Sally Reiner can be contacted directly via e-mail for any comments regarding the G.A.R. Monument as well as any questions about the Lykens-Wiconisco Historical Society.  Starting in the spring, this new historical society will have the Lykens G.A.R. Building as its meeting place, headquarters, and museum.  The building has been the subject of several prior posts here on this blog.

As always, comments can be added to this post.

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A monument was erected in the Borough of Lykens to honor the veterans from the Lykens and Wiconisco area who fought in the Civil War.  This monument is located on North Second Street in Lykens.  Traveling into Lykens from either direction on Route 209, turn north at Market Street and proceed to North Second Street.  Turn right on North Second Street and the monument is located on the right. It stands in front of the old G.A.R. Building.

The date that this monument was erected is not clear, but had to be after 1881 when the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.), Heilner Post No. 232 was formed, because men are listed who joined after it was formed and men are listed who never joined.

The monument’s inscription reads:

Tablet erected by Heilner Woman’s Relief Corps, No. 101 of Lykens, Pennsylvania, in memory of the Men who enlisted from Lykens, Wiconisco, and vicinity in the Civil War, 1861-1865, and in honor of Heilner Post No. 232 G.A.R. of Lykens, Pennsylvania, organized October 27, 1881.

The monument it unusual in that it attempts to name every known person who served in the war from the area – those who were founding members of the G.A.R. Post, those who joined the G.A.R. Post later, and those who were never members.  There are about 400 names listed.  It is not known how the list was compiled.  And, whether it accomplished the goal remains to be seen.

The geographic area represented is also not exactly clear.  Does it include all of Wiconisco Township?  At one time part of Wiconisco Township extended to the north side of Short Mountain.  Are any veterans named on the monument who lived outside the geographic area, but who belonged to the Heilner Post? Are names omitted if a veteran lived in the geographic area but belonged to another G.A.R. Post?  From a previous item posted here, we learned that there were many G.A.R. Posts throughout the Lykens Valley area.

The list of names is organized into three sections:  (1) Charter members.  (2) Joined After Organization.  (3) Men Who Were Not Members.  Within each of the sections, veterans are grouped by rank, highest rank fist, and within each rank they are grouped alphabetically.  A set of symbols is used to note those were wounded, killed, died in rebel prisons, or died of disease.  The names are in very small print on the bronze tablet and some of the names are difficult to read – due perhaps to wear, dirt or corrosion.

The names on the monument represent the largest group of Civil War veterans who were individually named on any Civil War monument in the area.  This is also the only known Civil War monument in the area that was specifically created by a women’s group

About 80% of the names on the plaque are easy to identify.  They represent individuals who were active in the community, lived for a long period after the war, had unusual names, are buried in area cemeteries, etc.  Resources are readily available to identify the regiment and company in which they served.  About 20% are difficult, perhaps because they have very common names, moved in or out of the community, died without out making any mark beyond their Civil War service, did not wish to be identified, etc.  All of the names have now been included in the list of about 2000 Civil War veterans who have been identified thus far who are from the greater Lykens Valley area.  One of the objectives of this Civil War Research Project is to find out as much information about these veterans as possible.  Anyone who has information on any veteran named on this monument is urged to contribute to the project!

In reproducing a list of the names that appear on the monument, one “*” will be used to denote those who were wounded.  Two “**” will be used to denote those who were killed.  Three “***” will be used to denote those who died in rebel prisons.  Finally, “^” will be used to denote those who died of disease.  These are approximately the same symbols that are used on the monument.

CHARTER MEMBERS

Captain – James L. Pell

Surgeon – H. K. Myers

2^nd Lieutenant – J. R. M. Haas

1^st Sergeants – Henry Keiser*; Richard F. Martz

Sergeants – Riley Bressler; Josiah Minnick

Corporals – Henry M. Hoffman; Amos Kuntzelman; John L. Matter; John L. Shaud*; William Thomas; A. F. Thompson

Bugler – Henry Feindt

Privates – James G. Bateman; Hiram Bueck; William H. Ferree; William H. Kendall; Jacob McCoy; John Warner

JOINED AFTER ORGANIZATION

Captain – Harry W. Fox

1^st Lieutenant – Jacob Alvord; Jacob L. Brallier; William H. Jones; John L. Long; Caleb H. Roe

2^nd Lieutenant – A. B. Cassel; John DeSilva; Ephraim Potts

1^st Sergeants – Jacob E. Arnold; Joseph Dunlap; Samuel M. Fenn; Benjamin F. Miller; John C. Miller*

Sergeants – Cyrus Bitterman; Francis J. Feindt; John Kauffman; William Martz*; Joseph B. Miller; Martin P. Shaffner; Charles J. Shoemaker; Cyrus S. Spangler; Lewis D. Steckel; Samuel J. Thompson; John Townsend; Abel Wise; Fred N. Wise

Corporals – Joseph M. Buchanan; John C. Davis; Lewis Goudy; Michael M. Hoffman; Isaac W. Holland; Daniel Jury; John Kissinger; Jacob B. Lehman; Joel B. Myers; Edward Pugh; Jeremiah H. Smith; Harry W. Snyder; William L. Sowers

Privates – William Baily; George W. Bitterman; William Bitterman; William Boeckler; William H. Bogar; Jacob Bowman; Louis F. Breyer; Henry Buffington; John Chester*; Richard Coles; John Crane; William Davis; Isaac DeFrehn; Elias Deitrich; John Dolen; Louis Doutrich; Abram Dreibelbies*; Enoch Dressel; Benjamin F. Eby; Jacob Elm; George Ely; Edward Engel; William M. Fegley; Adam Fisher; Patrick Flynn; Jacob Forney; Joseph Fotheringill; Jonas Foust; Uriah Frantz; Earnest Gerdom Sr.; Henry S. Graver; William Grell; Henry R. Grimm; Daniel Grow; Benjamin F. Harper; Daniel Hawk; Philip Hawk; William H. Hawk; Charles E. Heck; Henry Helt; Cornelius A. Hochlander; Daniel C. Hoffman; John P. Hoffman; Samuel Hoover; Beneville Hoyer*; William Hughes; James Hunter; George Irving; William Irving; Daniel Israel; Jerry Kerchner; John Kicher; Joseph Klinger; Samuel Klinger; George Knarr; Lewis Kniley; Josiah Kocher; William Kocher; Earnest Koons; Andrew Kreiner; William Lamey; John Lebo; John F. Lechleitner; Emmanuel Lehman; Nat C. Lehman; Valentine Lenker; Josiah Lohr; Joseph Louden; Chas. H. Loudenslager; Peter Lowe; Amos Mark; John H. Mark; Gustavus Martin; Henry A. Martz; Jacob Matter; Michael Matter; Peter Matter; Samuel S. Matter; Henry Maurer; Daniel Messner; William S. Miller; Alvin Morgan; William H. Morgan; William Morris; John Mucher; John Murphy; John McCarty; George McClellan; Alex McLaughlin; Daniel McManaman; L. F. Nolen; Moses Nutt*; John O’Brien; John W. Orndorff; Caleb Parfet; George A. Pinkerton; John H. Primm; Joseph Reinoehl; B. W. Ritzman; Joseph Ritzman; Jonas Row; Joseph Russel; Oscar Schindler; George Schreffler; Daniel A. Schultz; Joseph Seiders; James M. Sheetz; Joseph R. Shuler; David Smink; David C. Smith; Isaac E. Snyder*; John Snyder; John J. Snyder; Tyrus Snyder; William Snyder; William J. Snyder; George Spangler; John H. Spangler; Charles J. Starnowski; George W. St. Clair; Isaac D. Steel; John Steever; J. W. Steever; Emmanuel Stoneroad; Jacob Swab; Jonas Swab; George Uhler; William H. Uhler; William Wallace; George Waller*; Beneville Welker; Benjamin Welker; William Welker; John Wells*; John H. Wert; Samuel Wert; Nathaniel Willets; David T. Williams; William Williams; Thomas M. Williams; Daniel Williard; John W. Witmer; Levi Workman; Fred Yencth (error on plaque – should be Yentch); John H. Zarker; John H. Zimmerman.

MEN WHO WERE NOT MEMBERS

Colonel – Edward G. Savage

Sergeant Major – Cyrus G. Marks

Regimental Sergeant – Daniel Keiser

Captains – James N. Douden; Cornelius A. Harper; Jacob H. Martz

Surgeon – I. R. Shammo

1^st Lieutenants – William Keiser; William P. Miller*

2^nd Lieutenants – George W. Hain; Edward Miller

1^st Sergeants – Robert Bainbridge; Frank Douden; John Potticher

Sergeants – Thomas E. Deitrich; Sylvester Erb; Francis S. Feindt; James M. Ferree; Isaac Finton; Samuel S, Harper; Philip Kline; Samuel Miller; Obed J. Reigel; Ben Umberger; Thomas J. Woodside

Corporals – Aaron Bressler; John Davis; James W. Elliot; Rush B. Foster; John Kerstetter^; Harry S. Matter; Benjamin F. Morgan; Edwin Moyer**; Benjamin Ressler; John Romberger; George W. Sheesley; Reuben Smith; James M. Witman; Joseph Workman**; Joshua Workman**; George W. Clark; Jonathan Hoffman

Privates – David Alvord; George Armstrong; Edward Baily; Guy E. Baily; Hiram Baily Sr.; Daniel Batdorff; Philip Batdorff**; Fred Bellon; John Bellon; John Bird; Thomas H. Bitterman; Peter Blystone; Henry Bordner; Jacob Bordner; Moses Botts; Edward Brown; Isaiah Brown; Steve Crumy; Isaac Darker; Thomas L. Davis; Emmanuel Dougherty*; Frank Duane**; Israel Feidt**; Jacob Ferree; Uriah D. Ferree; William H. Ferree; Josiah Folk; Edward J. Fordman; John W. Forney; William Fuller; Levi Gable; Samuel Goudy**; Albert L. Grace; John C. Gratz ^; Elias Grimm; John Gunderman; John Haley; Beneville Hand; Philip Harman**; James Hart; Jeremiah Hawk; Nathan Herb; Henry A. Higgins; Thomas F. Higgins; John H. Hoffman; Michael M. Hoffman Sr.; Philip Hoffman; John Hoover; Jonathan Hoover; David Israel; Richard Jones; William Keen; Alexander Keiser; George Keiser; Jonas Keiser; James Kercher**; Christian Kissley; Alexander Klinger; Fred L. Kniley***; Peter Lehman; David Machamer*; Henry Machamer; Isaac Machamer**; Israel Machamer; Hiram Mann; Pat Martin; Cornelius Martz; Edward Martz; Emmanuel Matter; Henry C. Matter; Jeremiah Matter; John Matter; Jerry McCoy*; Henry McCurtin; John McDermot; Owen McDermot; Philip Messner**; William Messner; Cyrus Miller; Henry Miller; James Miller; John Miller; Elias Minnick**; Mort Mumma; Samuel Mumma; Edward F. Myers; George W. Myers; Michael O’Leary; George Parfet; James Parfet; Henry Pell; Peter Pell; Barnhardt Plotzer Sr.; Michael Polm; John Powell; William Reed; Jonas P. Reigle; Andrew Ressler; Henry Ressler; John Rettinger; John Roberts **; Andrew Robison**; Peter Robison**; Henry Romberger**; Jonathan Romberger; Simon Romberger; William Romberger; Adam Row; John M. Row; Harry H. Rubendall*; Solomon Rudisill**; Cyrus Salada; John Salada; Geroge Samuels; McCoy Sarbut**; William Savage; David Sayor; Jacob Saylor; Fred Schindler; Samuel Shell; Amos Shomper; Daniel Shomper; John Shomper***; Abraham Snyder; Israel Snyder; James Snyder; Gutleip Sperl; Daniel Stahl; Abraham Steude; John Tillman; James Thomas; William Thompson^; Frank Treon**; Aaron Updegrave; Daniel Updegrave; Solomon Updegrave**; Joseph Way; Jacob Weaver; Jacob Weidel; William R. Williams; Hiram Wilt; Jacob Wilt; Josesph Witman; Nathaniel Woland; Oliver Wolcott; David Workman*; Frank Workman**; Cyrus Zeiger; Edward Zerby; Henry Zerby; Jacob Zerby.

Additional pictures of the monument follow.  Click on tablet picture to enlarge and read names.

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