William was the oldest child of John and Elizabeth (Monticue) Best who married in 1835 in Donegal, PA. He had 8 younger siblings. The family moved from Westmoreland County to Darlington, Beaver County to find work in coal mines. William's father, John, at age 56 mustered in and joined the Union army during the Civil War and was killed a year later in Sept of 1862.
William, following his father's example, enrolled on the 6th day of August , 1862 in Lawrence County, PA in Company I of the 134 Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers and mustered in as a private on the 22nd day of August, 1862 at Harrisburg, PA. He died of typhus at a camp hospital near Falmouth, VA Dec. 30th 1862. Between enrolling and mustering in, he married 18 year old Susanah and had 7 days as a groom before he left for the war.
Another private (who later died) from Darlington wrote home to his family that around the camp near Falmouth the woods were full of graves of fallen soldiers, mostly marked with cracker boxes upon which their names were written.
William, following his father's example, enrolled on the 6th day of August , 1862 in Lawrence County, PA in Company I of the 134 Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers and mustered in as a private on the 22nd day of August, 1862 at Harrisburg, PA. He died of typhus at a camp hospital near Falmouth, VA Dec. 30th 1862. Between enrolling and mustering in, he married 18 year old Susanah and had 7 days as a groom before he left for the war.
Another private (who later died) from Darlington wrote home to his family that around the camp near Falmouth the woods were full of graves of fallen soldiers, mostly marked with cracker boxes upon which their names were written.
William was the oldest child of John and Elizabeth (Monticue) Best who married in 1835 in Donegal, PA. He had 8 younger siblings. The family moved from Westmoreland County to Darlington, Beaver County to find work in coal mines. William's father, John, at age 56 mustered in and joined the Union army during the Civil War and was killed a year later in Sept of 1862.
William, following his father's example, enrolled on the 6th day of August , 1862 in Lawrence County, PA in Company I of the 134 Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers and mustered in as a private on the 22nd day of August, 1862 at Harrisburg, PA. He died of typhus at a camp hospital near Falmouth, VA Dec. 30th 1862. Between enrolling and mustering in, he married 18 year old Susanah and had 7 days as a groom before he left for the war.
Another private (who later died) from Darlington wrote home to his family that around the camp near Falmouth the woods were full of graves of fallen soldiers, mostly marked with cracker boxes upon which their names were written.
William, following his father's example, enrolled on the 6th day of August , 1862 in Lawrence County, PA in Company I of the 134 Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers and mustered in as a private on the 22nd day of August, 1862 at Harrisburg, PA. He died of typhus at a camp hospital near Falmouth, VA Dec. 30th 1862. Between enrolling and mustering in, he married 18 year old Susanah and had 7 days as a groom before he left for the war.
Another private (who later died) from Darlington wrote home to his family that around the camp near Falmouth the woods were full of graves of fallen soldiers, mostly marked with cracker boxes upon which their names were written.
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