"In May 1861 he enlisted in Company B, 7th PA Reserves. He served only 30 days of the Three years, when he was taken prisoner at the battle of Wilderness and was sent to Andersonville Prison. Three month later he was sent to Libby Prison and was there three months when a man came in and asked if there was anyone in the place who could clean tripe and prepare it for food. Mr Staily had learned this at home, and so informed the questioner; whereupon they took him out of the prison, and he went to work on the job.
He soon improved in health and strength, and desired to help his fellow prisoners, so he would often conceal a tripe in his clothing and carry it to his comrades. Having been detected in this he was sent back to prison and was compelled to carry a heavy billet of wood strapped on his back for forty eight hours.
He was at Libbey when the prisoners planned an escape by undermining and tunneling, and were defeated in their plot by the betrayal of one of the prisoners. Mr Staily was paroled and sent to Annapolis; he was in such emaciated condition that he was unable to walk and had to be carried. He was in many battles and received two small scratch wounds"
From 'The History of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry Counties' by (Walling, H. F.; Gray, Ormando Willis), 1872 page 1311.
He soon improved in health and strength, and desired to help his fellow prisoners, so he would often conceal a tripe in his clothing and carry it to his comrades. Having been detected in this he was sent back to prison and was compelled to carry a heavy billet of wood strapped on his back for forty eight hours.
He was at Libbey when the prisoners planned an escape by undermining and tunneling, and were defeated in their plot by the betrayal of one of the prisoners. Mr Staily was paroled and sent to Annapolis; he was in such emaciated condition that he was unable to walk and had to be carried. He was in many battles and received two small scratch wounds"
From 'The History of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry Counties' by (Walling, H. F.; Gray, Ormando Willis), 1872 page 1311.
"In May 1861 he enlisted in Company B, 7th PA Reserves. He served only 30 days of the Three years, when he was taken prisoner at the battle of Wilderness and was sent to Andersonville Prison. Three month later he was sent to Libby Prison and was there three months when a man came in and asked if there was anyone in the place who could clean tripe and prepare it for food. Mr Staily had learned this at home, and so informed the questioner; whereupon they took him out of the prison, and he went to work on the job.
He soon improved in health and strength, and desired to help his fellow prisoners, so he would often conceal a tripe in his clothing and carry it to his comrades. Having been detected in this he was sent back to prison and was compelled to carry a heavy billet of wood strapped on his back for forty eight hours.
He was at Libbey when the prisoners planned an escape by undermining and tunneling, and were defeated in their plot by the betrayal of one of the prisoners. Mr Staily was paroled and sent to Annapolis; he was in such emaciated condition that he was unable to walk and had to be carried. He was in many battles and received two small scratch wounds"
From 'The History of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry Counties' by (Walling, H. F.; Gray, Ormando Willis), 1872 page 1311.
He soon improved in health and strength, and desired to help his fellow prisoners, so he would often conceal a tripe in his clothing and carry it to his comrades. Having been detected in this he was sent back to prison and was compelled to carry a heavy billet of wood strapped on his back for forty eight hours.
He was at Libbey when the prisoners planned an escape by undermining and tunneling, and were defeated in their plot by the betrayal of one of the prisoners. Mr Staily was paroled and sent to Annapolis; he was in such emaciated condition that he was unable to walk and had to be carried. He was in many battles and received two small scratch wounds"
From 'The History of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry Counties' by (Walling, H. F.; Gray, Ormando Willis), 1872 page 1311.
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