In 1860, he apprenticed as a blacksmith with master carriage maker G. Schroeder in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and stood 5' 6" tall with brown hair and black eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Cumberland County May 8, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Washington DC May 28 as a private with Co. H, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves (aka 36th Pennsylvania Infantry). Hospitalized in May 1862, he was still there a year later. He returned to duty and was captured at the battle of the Wilderness and incarcerated in the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia, after stays in prisons at Lynchburg and Danville, Virginia. He was paroled April 28, 1865 at Jacksonville, Florida, and honorably discharged May 29, 1865.
He married Margaret Eckles Huston October 19, 1866, in Mechanicsburg and fathered Arthur Verne (b. 09/25/70), Veronica, Bessie, and Harold V. Margaret died in 1906, and he married widow Mary A. Bailey, née Swartz, October 25, 1913. He received mention in the book The Capture: The Prison Pen and the Escape for his humanitarian efforts at Andersonville.
(Biography contributed by Dennis Brandt.)
Son of Susanna Mickey & Joseph Egolf.
Children: Lewis A., Francis Huston, Worthington, & Arthur Vernon.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Cumberland County May 8, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Washington DC May 28 as a private with Co. H, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves (aka 36th Pennsylvania Infantry). Hospitalized in May 1862, he was still there a year later. He returned to duty and was captured at the battle of the Wilderness and incarcerated in the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia, after stays in prisons at Lynchburg and Danville, Virginia. He was paroled April 28, 1865 at Jacksonville, Florida, and honorably discharged May 29, 1865.
He married Margaret Eckles Huston October 19, 1866, in Mechanicsburg and fathered Arthur Verne (b. 09/25/70), Veronica, Bessie, and Harold V. Margaret died in 1906, and he married widow Mary A. Bailey, née Swartz, October 25, 1913. He received mention in the book The Capture: The Prison Pen and the Escape for his humanitarian efforts at Andersonville.
(Biography contributed by Dennis Brandt.)
Son of Susanna Mickey & Joseph Egolf.
Children: Lewis A., Francis Huston, Worthington, & Arthur Vernon.
In 1860, he apprenticed as a blacksmith with master carriage maker G. Schroeder in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and stood 5' 6" tall with brown hair and black eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Cumberland County May 8, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Washington DC May 28 as a private with Co. H, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves (aka 36th Pennsylvania Infantry). Hospitalized in May 1862, he was still there a year later. He returned to duty and was captured at the battle of the Wilderness and incarcerated in the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia, after stays in prisons at Lynchburg and Danville, Virginia. He was paroled April 28, 1865 at Jacksonville, Florida, and honorably discharged May 29, 1865.
He married Margaret Eckles Huston October 19, 1866, in Mechanicsburg and fathered Arthur Verne (b. 09/25/70), Veronica, Bessie, and Harold V. Margaret died in 1906, and he married widow Mary A. Bailey, née Swartz, October 25, 1913. He received mention in the book The Capture: The Prison Pen and the Escape for his humanitarian efforts at Andersonville.
(Biography contributed by Dennis Brandt.)
Son of Susanna Mickey & Joseph Egolf.
Children: Lewis A., Francis Huston, Worthington, & Arthur Vernon.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Cumberland County May 8, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Washington DC May 28 as a private with Co. H, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves (aka 36th Pennsylvania Infantry). Hospitalized in May 1862, he was still there a year later. He returned to duty and was captured at the battle of the Wilderness and incarcerated in the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia, after stays in prisons at Lynchburg and Danville, Virginia. He was paroled April 28, 1865 at Jacksonville, Florida, and honorably discharged May 29, 1865.
He married Margaret Eckles Huston October 19, 1866, in Mechanicsburg and fathered Arthur Verne (b. 09/25/70), Veronica, Bessie, and Harold V. Margaret died in 1906, and he married widow Mary A. Bailey, née Swartz, October 25, 1913. He received mention in the book The Capture: The Prison Pen and the Escape for his humanitarian efforts at Andersonville.
(Biography contributed by Dennis Brandt.)
Son of Susanna Mickey & Joseph Egolf.
Children: Lewis A., Francis Huston, Worthington, & Arthur Vernon.
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