I question that this is the grave of the Adam Hetrick who served with Co. G, 151st Pennsylvania Infantry.
1. The Adam Hetrick found in the company register for Co. G, 151st Pennsylvania Infantry enlisted at the stated age of eighteen, not thirty-eight, and he is the only Adam Hetrick or any similar spelling in that unit. A thirty-eight-year-old recruit had no reason to lie about his age and even if he did, twenty years would not have been believable. The age could be a clerical error, but the eighteen enlistment age appears in multiple military documents (which could have propagated).
2. The veteran's wife's name was "Linnie," not "Lavina." While Linnie could conceivably be a nickname, Adam's wife applied for a widow's pension from New Jersey dated March 11, 1907, more than three years after Lavinia's reported death. The obituary in The News (Newport) for the Adam who died in Kansas at the reported age of 81-7-5 confirms that his wife "Elvina" [sic] died in 1894 and makes no mention of remarriage.
3. The aforementioned obituary mentions nothing about military service, odd for a man who had fought with a regiment suffering the second highest Federal casualty rate at the battle of Gettysburg.
I will be reading the pension file for the Adam of the 151st Pennsylvania Infantry in the near future and get back to you. This could be a series of reporting gaffs or, as is all too commonplace, a conflation of two men with the same name. Given the wife's data, the latter is more likely. BTW, there is but one Adam Hetrick in the 1850 and 1860 censuses and it is the older man. That apparent same man is listed in the 1863-65 draft registration as a conscript, although the regiment is not mentioned. The 151st Pennsylvania Infantry was a volunteer regiment.
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Enlisted in Company G, Pennsylvania 151st Volunteers, Union Army in September 1862 and mustered out in late July 1863 after participating in the Battle of Gettysburg.
Thanks to Wanda Flory for birth and death dates.
1. The Adam Hetrick found in the company register for Co. G, 151st Pennsylvania Infantry enlisted at the stated age of eighteen, not thirty-eight, and he is the only Adam Hetrick or any similar spelling in that unit. A thirty-eight-year-old recruit had no reason to lie about his age and even if he did, twenty years would not have been believable. The age could be a clerical error, but the eighteen enlistment age appears in multiple military documents (which could have propagated).
2. The veteran's wife's name was "Linnie," not "Lavina." While Linnie could conceivably be a nickname, Adam's wife applied for a widow's pension from New Jersey dated March 11, 1907, more than three years after Lavinia's reported death. The obituary in The News (Newport) for the Adam who died in Kansas at the reported age of 81-7-5 confirms that his wife "Elvina" [sic] died in 1894 and makes no mention of remarriage.
3. The aforementioned obituary mentions nothing about military service, odd for a man who had fought with a regiment suffering the second highest Federal casualty rate at the battle of Gettysburg.
I will be reading the pension file for the Adam of the 151st Pennsylvania Infantry in the near future and get back to you. This could be a series of reporting gaffs or, as is all too commonplace, a conflation of two men with the same name. Given the wife's data, the latter is more likely. BTW, there is but one Adam Hetrick in the 1850 and 1860 censuses and it is the older man. That apparent same man is listed in the 1863-65 draft registration as a conscript, although the regiment is not mentioned. The 151st Pennsylvania Infantry was a volunteer regiment.
Original post:
Enlisted in Company G, Pennsylvania 151st Volunteers, Union Army in September 1862 and mustered out in late July 1863 after participating in the Battle of Gettysburg.
Thanks to Wanda Flory for birth and death dates.
I question that this is the grave of the Adam Hetrick who served with Co. G, 151st Pennsylvania Infantry.
1. The Adam Hetrick found in the company register for Co. G, 151st Pennsylvania Infantry enlisted at the stated age of eighteen, not thirty-eight, and he is the only Adam Hetrick or any similar spelling in that unit. A thirty-eight-year-old recruit had no reason to lie about his age and even if he did, twenty years would not have been believable. The age could be a clerical error, but the eighteen enlistment age appears in multiple military documents (which could have propagated).
2. The veteran's wife's name was "Linnie," not "Lavina." While Linnie could conceivably be a nickname, Adam's wife applied for a widow's pension from New Jersey dated March 11, 1907, more than three years after Lavinia's reported death. The obituary in The News (Newport) for the Adam who died in Kansas at the reported age of 81-7-5 confirms that his wife "Elvina" [sic] died in 1894 and makes no mention of remarriage.
3. The aforementioned obituary mentions nothing about military service, odd for a man who had fought with a regiment suffering the second highest Federal casualty rate at the battle of Gettysburg.
I will be reading the pension file for the Adam of the 151st Pennsylvania Infantry in the near future and get back to you. This could be a series of reporting gaffs or, as is all too commonplace, a conflation of two men with the same name. Given the wife's data, the latter is more likely. BTW, there is but one Adam Hetrick in the 1850 and 1860 censuses and it is the older man. That apparent same man is listed in the 1863-65 draft registration as a conscript, although the regiment is not mentioned. The 151st Pennsylvania Infantry was a volunteer regiment.
Original post:
Enlisted in Company G, Pennsylvania 151st Volunteers, Union Army in September 1862 and mustered out in late July 1863 after participating in the Battle of Gettysburg.
Thanks to Wanda Flory for birth and death dates.
1. The Adam Hetrick found in the company register for Co. G, 151st Pennsylvania Infantry enlisted at the stated age of eighteen, not thirty-eight, and he is the only Adam Hetrick or any similar spelling in that unit. A thirty-eight-year-old recruit had no reason to lie about his age and even if he did, twenty years would not have been believable. The age could be a clerical error, but the eighteen enlistment age appears in multiple military documents (which could have propagated).
2. The veteran's wife's name was "Linnie," not "Lavina." While Linnie could conceivably be a nickname, Adam's wife applied for a widow's pension from New Jersey dated March 11, 1907, more than three years after Lavinia's reported death. The obituary in The News (Newport) for the Adam who died in Kansas at the reported age of 81-7-5 confirms that his wife "Elvina" [sic] died in 1894 and makes no mention of remarriage.
3. The aforementioned obituary mentions nothing about military service, odd for a man who had fought with a regiment suffering the second highest Federal casualty rate at the battle of Gettysburg.
I will be reading the pension file for the Adam of the 151st Pennsylvania Infantry in the near future and get back to you. This could be a series of reporting gaffs or, as is all too commonplace, a conflation of two men with the same name. Given the wife's data, the latter is more likely. BTW, there is but one Adam Hetrick in the 1850 and 1860 censuses and it is the older man. That apparent same man is listed in the 1863-65 draft registration as a conscript, although the regiment is not mentioned. The 151st Pennsylvania Infantry was a volunteer regiment.
Original post:
Enlisted in Company G, Pennsylvania 151st Volunteers, Union Army in September 1862 and mustered out in late July 1863 after participating in the Battle of Gettysburg.
Thanks to Wanda Flory for birth and death dates.
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