Today’s post on the Shamokin Cemetery’s Soldiers’ Circle features seven graves in the second circle, fourth quadrant, beginning with photograph 138. The photographs in this segment are numbered 138 through 144. All of the stones in this section are sequenced in the order of the death of the veteran. For each of the veterans, the […]
Daniel Engle (or Engel) enrolled in the 96th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, as a Private, on 1 October 1861, at Donaldson, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, and was mustered into service on the same day at Pottsville. He gave his age as 32, but other records indicate he was actually born in 1829 and was closer to […]
Today’s post on the Shamokin Cemetery’s Soldiers’ Circle features nine graves in the second circle, fourth quadrant, beginning with photograph 129. The photographs in this segment are numbered 129 through 137. All of the stones in this section are sequenced in the order of the death of the veteran. For each of the veterans, the […]
Today’s post on the Shamokin Cemetery’s Soldiers’ Circle features nine graves in the second circle, third quadrant, beginning with photograph 120. The photographs in this segment are numbered 120 through 128. All of the stones in this section are sequenced in the order of the death of the veteran. For each of the veterans, the […]
On 12 September 1861, a 25 year-old John Coffield enrolled in the 96th Pennsylvania Infantry at Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. On 23 September, he was mustered into Company H as a Private. The record indicates that he died on 11 November 1864, at Richmond, Virginia. His name was found in a list of Schuylkill County […]
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