John E. Will served with Company C of the 47th Pennsylvania, and that he was killed in action on October 19, 1864 during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, one of the major engagements of Union General Philip Sheridan's 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign which helped turn the tide of the Civil War in the Union's favor.
John E. Will was initially interred at Covley's Farm, one of the many who fell in fields and on the surrounding farmlands during the battle that day, were hastily buried after the fighting, and then reinterred at later dates when the federal government moved soldiers' remains to national cemeteries. (John Will was reinterred at the Winchester National Cemetery - were most of the others from the 47th who were killed at Cedar Creek were also reinterred.)
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John (Johannes) Will was the husband of Delilah Henton and an elderly farmer with most of his family raised when he became a soldier and died for what he believed in at the age of 82.
John E. Will was initially interred at Covley's Farm, one of the many who fell in fields and on the surrounding farmlands during the battle that day, were hastily buried after the fighting, and then reinterred at later dates when the federal government moved soldiers' remains to national cemeteries. (John Will was reinterred at the Winchester National Cemetery - were most of the others from the 47th who were killed at Cedar Creek were also reinterred.)
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John (Johannes) Will was the husband of Delilah Henton and an elderly farmer with most of his family raised when he became a soldier and died for what he believed in at the age of 82.
John E. Will served with Company C of the 47th Pennsylvania, and that he was killed in action on October 19, 1864 during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, one of the major engagements of Union General Philip Sheridan's 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign which helped turn the tide of the Civil War in the Union's favor.
John E. Will was initially interred at Covley's Farm, one of the many who fell in fields and on the surrounding farmlands during the battle that day, were hastily buried after the fighting, and then reinterred at later dates when the federal government moved soldiers' remains to national cemeteries. (John Will was reinterred at the Winchester National Cemetery - were most of the others from the 47th who were killed at Cedar Creek were also reinterred.)
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John (Johannes) Will was the husband of Delilah Henton and an elderly farmer with most of his family raised when he became a soldier and died for what he believed in at the age of 82.
John E. Will was initially interred at Covley's Farm, one of the many who fell in fields and on the surrounding farmlands during the battle that day, were hastily buried after the fighting, and then reinterred at later dates when the federal government moved soldiers' remains to national cemeteries. (John Will was reinterred at the Winchester National Cemetery - were most of the others from the 47th who were killed at Cedar Creek were also reinterred.)
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John (Johannes) Will was the husband of Delilah Henton and an elderly farmer with most of his family raised when he became a soldier and died for what he believed in at the age of 82.
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