The attached headstone record seems to indicate that John B. Reese served with Co. B, 122nd Pennsylvania Infantry during the Civil War. Indeed, a listing of deceased veterans in the June 3, 1885, edition of the Lancaster Examiner also reports that fact. In addition, there is a veteran named J. B. Reese listed as buried in Lancaster Cemetery in the Lancaster County Archives' Veteran Burial Index.
Nonetheless, John B. Reese almost certainly did not serve with Co. B, 122nd Pennsylvania Infantry, if he served with any regiment.
I have read all 977 compiled military service records for the 122nd Pennsylvania Infantry and encountered no one named John B. Reese or any alternate surname spelling. The regiment had but three men by that surname, but none was named John, none was a member of Co. B, and none died anywhere near the date specified here for John B. Reese. Moreover, no John B. Reese or any alternate spelling is found in Bates' History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, the Pennsylvania Archives' ARIAS file, or the muster roll, and no one by that name applied for a military pension. Conceivably, he could have served under an alias, but none of the known death dates for members of the regiment is December 20, 1880. Furthermore, John B. Reese died in a tragic railroad accident that led to many stories in the Lancaster newspapers, but not one article mentions anything about a Civil War record, a then commonplace practice when veterans died.
Nonetheless, John B. Reese almost certainly did not serve with Co. B, 122nd Pennsylvania Infantry, if he served with any regiment.
I have read all 977 compiled military service records for the 122nd Pennsylvania Infantry and encountered no one named John B. Reese or any alternate surname spelling. The regiment had but three men by that surname, but none was named John, none was a member of Co. B, and none died anywhere near the date specified here for John B. Reese. Moreover, no John B. Reese or any alternate spelling is found in Bates' History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, the Pennsylvania Archives' ARIAS file, or the muster roll, and no one by that name applied for a military pension. Conceivably, he could have served under an alias, but none of the known death dates for members of the regiment is December 20, 1880. Furthermore, John B. Reese died in a tragic railroad accident that led to many stories in the Lancaster newspapers, but not one article mentions anything about a Civil War record, a then commonplace practice when veterans died.
The attached headstone record seems to indicate that John B. Reese served with Co. B, 122nd Pennsylvania Infantry during the Civil War. Indeed, a listing of deceased veterans in the June 3, 1885, edition of the Lancaster Examiner also reports that fact. In addition, there is a veteran named J. B. Reese listed as buried in Lancaster Cemetery in the Lancaster County Archives' Veteran Burial Index.
Nonetheless, John B. Reese almost certainly did not serve with Co. B, 122nd Pennsylvania Infantry, if he served with any regiment.
I have read all 977 compiled military service records for the 122nd Pennsylvania Infantry and encountered no one named John B. Reese or any alternate surname spelling. The regiment had but three men by that surname, but none was named John, none was a member of Co. B, and none died anywhere near the date specified here for John B. Reese. Moreover, no John B. Reese or any alternate spelling is found in Bates' History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, the Pennsylvania Archives' ARIAS file, or the muster roll, and no one by that name applied for a military pension. Conceivably, he could have served under an alias, but none of the known death dates for members of the regiment is December 20, 1880. Furthermore, John B. Reese died in a tragic railroad accident that led to many stories in the Lancaster newspapers, but not one article mentions anything about a Civil War record, a then commonplace practice when veterans died.
Nonetheless, John B. Reese almost certainly did not serve with Co. B, 122nd Pennsylvania Infantry, if he served with any regiment.
I have read all 977 compiled military service records for the 122nd Pennsylvania Infantry and encountered no one named John B. Reese or any alternate surname spelling. The regiment had but three men by that surname, but none was named John, none was a member of Co. B, and none died anywhere near the date specified here for John B. Reese. Moreover, no John B. Reese or any alternate spelling is found in Bates' History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, the Pennsylvania Archives' ARIAS file, or the muster roll, and no one by that name applied for a military pension. Conceivably, he could have served under an alias, but none of the known death dates for members of the regiment is December 20, 1880. Furthermore, John B. Reese died in a tragic railroad accident that led to many stories in the Lancaster newspapers, but not one article mentions anything about a Civil War record, a then commonplace practice when veterans died.
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