CIVIL WAR CASUALTY. DROWNED IN SERVICE AT CACAPON, WV, WHILE SERVING WITH CO D 20TH PA CAVALRY . AGE 21.
In 1861, at the age of twenty-one years, enlisted in the Twentieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and three months afterward, while carrying dispatches, attempted to ford the Potomac River on horseback, at a place known as "Sir John's Run," and was drowned; his body was recovered by his comrades, was sent home and was buried in the cemetery attached to St. John's Lutheran Church, near by. He was one of the first of Cumberland County's heroes to give up his life for his country.
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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
In 1861, at the age of twenty-one years, enlisted in the Twentieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and three months afterward, while carrying dispatches, attempted to ford the Potomac River on horseback, at a place known as "Sir John's Run," and was drowned; his body was recovered by his comrades, was sent home and was buried in the cemetery attached to St. John's Lutheran Church, near by. He was one of the first of Cumberland County's heroes to give up his life for his country.
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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
CIVIL WAR CASUALTY. DROWNED IN SERVICE AT CACAPON, WV, WHILE SERVING WITH CO D 20TH PA CAVALRY . AGE 21.
In 1861, at the age of twenty-one years, enlisted in the Twentieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and three months afterward, while carrying dispatches, attempted to ford the Potomac River on horseback, at a place known as "Sir John's Run," and was drowned; his body was recovered by his comrades, was sent home and was buried in the cemetery attached to St. John's Lutheran Church, near by. He was one of the first of Cumberland County's heroes to give up his life for his country.
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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
In 1861, at the age of twenty-one years, enlisted in the Twentieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and three months afterward, while carrying dispatches, attempted to ford the Potomac River on horseback, at a place known as "Sir John's Run," and was drowned; his body was recovered by his comrades, was sent home and was buried in the cemetery attached to St. John's Lutheran Church, near by. He was one of the first of Cumberland County's heroes to give up his life for his country.
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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
