From The Story of our Regiment: A History of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers
Corp Thomas E Royer, age 21, Rebersburg Pennsylvania enlisted Aug 22 1862, mustered Aug 25th, promoted to Corporal Nov 16 1863, wounded at Spotsylvania Virginia May 12 1864, transferred to the 51st Company, 2nd Battalion, Veterans Reserve Corps Feb 9 1865, discharged Aug 24 1865 resides at Rebersburg Pa.
"The long and toilsome marches of the campaign which culminated at Gettysburg, the excessive heat, the mental and physical strain of the battle, were exhausting to the boys in the extreme. They were emaciated, weak ans many of them were unable to carry muskets, myself being on of the latter, until we advanced in line of battle on the rebel works at Williamsport , there I picked up a gun belonging to one of our men who went home "without a pass." Thomas E Royer was another of those emaciated fellows, he possessed hardly sufficient corporal density to cast a shadow. Someone maliciously remarked that his inherited perversity, strengthened by years of practice, was the reason why he did not lie down and permit himself to be buried. He owed his recovery to an almost exclusive diet of blackberries of which there was an abundance all our route. For certain complaints there was more medicinal virtue in blackberries than in a ton of drugs, and scores of soldiers could testify to the fact. --Henry Meyer.
Corp Thomas E Royer, age 21, Rebersburg Pennsylvania enlisted Aug 22 1862, mustered Aug 25th, promoted to Corporal Nov 16 1863, wounded at Spotsylvania Virginia May 12 1864, transferred to the 51st Company, 2nd Battalion, Veterans Reserve Corps Feb 9 1865, discharged Aug 24 1865 resides at Rebersburg Pa.
"The long and toilsome marches of the campaign which culminated at Gettysburg, the excessive heat, the mental and physical strain of the battle, were exhausting to the boys in the extreme. They were emaciated, weak ans many of them were unable to carry muskets, myself being on of the latter, until we advanced in line of battle on the rebel works at Williamsport , there I picked up a gun belonging to one of our men who went home "without a pass." Thomas E Royer was another of those emaciated fellows, he possessed hardly sufficient corporal density to cast a shadow. Someone maliciously remarked that his inherited perversity, strengthened by years of practice, was the reason why he did not lie down and permit himself to be buried. He owed his recovery to an almost exclusive diet of blackberries of which there was an abundance all our route. For certain complaints there was more medicinal virtue in blackberries than in a ton of drugs, and scores of soldiers could testify to the fact. --Henry Meyer.
From The Story of our Regiment: A History of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers
Corp Thomas E Royer, age 21, Rebersburg Pennsylvania enlisted Aug 22 1862, mustered Aug 25th, promoted to Corporal Nov 16 1863, wounded at Spotsylvania Virginia May 12 1864, transferred to the 51st Company, 2nd Battalion, Veterans Reserve Corps Feb 9 1865, discharged Aug 24 1865 resides at Rebersburg Pa.
"The long and toilsome marches of the campaign which culminated at Gettysburg, the excessive heat, the mental and physical strain of the battle, were exhausting to the boys in the extreme. They were emaciated, weak ans many of them were unable to carry muskets, myself being on of the latter, until we advanced in line of battle on the rebel works at Williamsport , there I picked up a gun belonging to one of our men who went home "without a pass." Thomas E Royer was another of those emaciated fellows, he possessed hardly sufficient corporal density to cast a shadow. Someone maliciously remarked that his inherited perversity, strengthened by years of practice, was the reason why he did not lie down and permit himself to be buried. He owed his recovery to an almost exclusive diet of blackberries of which there was an abundance all our route. For certain complaints there was more medicinal virtue in blackberries than in a ton of drugs, and scores of soldiers could testify to the fact. --Henry Meyer.
Corp Thomas E Royer, age 21, Rebersburg Pennsylvania enlisted Aug 22 1862, mustered Aug 25th, promoted to Corporal Nov 16 1863, wounded at Spotsylvania Virginia May 12 1864, transferred to the 51st Company, 2nd Battalion, Veterans Reserve Corps Feb 9 1865, discharged Aug 24 1865 resides at Rebersburg Pa.
"The long and toilsome marches of the campaign which culminated at Gettysburg, the excessive heat, the mental and physical strain of the battle, were exhausting to the boys in the extreme. They were emaciated, weak ans many of them were unable to carry muskets, myself being on of the latter, until we advanced in line of battle on the rebel works at Williamsport , there I picked up a gun belonging to one of our men who went home "without a pass." Thomas E Royer was another of those emaciated fellows, he possessed hardly sufficient corporal density to cast a shadow. Someone maliciously remarked that his inherited perversity, strengthened by years of practice, was the reason why he did not lie down and permit himself to be buried. He owed his recovery to an almost exclusive diet of blackberries of which there was an abundance all our route. For certain complaints there was more medicinal virtue in blackberries than in a ton of drugs, and scores of soldiers could testify to the fact. --Henry Meyer.
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