William F. Heberling [Private, Co. D, 148th PA] —Mustered August 28, 1862; wounded at Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 3, 1863; discharged by General Order July 3, 1865 ; living at Benore, Pennsylvania
“While in charge of the guard one day [at Fort Stedman, VA] William Heberling called me [Sergt. Henry Campbell] to his post at the gate of the fort. He was blood from head to foot. We took him in and found the ball had barely cut the lower edge of his ear. He did not know it until he saw the blood. William was a good soldier. Just before this the one hundred had made their famous charge [at Petersburg] under Captain [Jeremiah Z.] Brown, and Heberling came out with two rebels at the point of the bayonet, and always said he killed a rebel Colonel in the fort.”
From The Story of Our Regiment: A History of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers.
“While in charge of the guard one day [at Fort Stedman, VA] William Heberling called me [Sergt. Henry Campbell] to his post at the gate of the fort. He was blood from head to foot. We took him in and found the ball had barely cut the lower edge of his ear. He did not know it until he saw the blood. William was a good soldier. Just before this the one hundred had made their famous charge [at Petersburg] under Captain [Jeremiah Z.] Brown, and Heberling came out with two rebels at the point of the bayonet, and always said he killed a rebel Colonel in the fort.”
From The Story of Our Regiment: A History of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers.
William F. Heberling [Private, Co. D, 148th PA] —Mustered August 28, 1862; wounded at Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 3, 1863; discharged by General Order July 3, 1865 ; living at Benore, Pennsylvania
“While in charge of the guard one day [at Fort Stedman, VA] William Heberling called me [Sergt. Henry Campbell] to his post at the gate of the fort. He was blood from head to foot. We took him in and found the ball had barely cut the lower edge of his ear. He did not know it until he saw the blood. William was a good soldier. Just before this the one hundred had made their famous charge [at Petersburg] under Captain [Jeremiah Z.] Brown, and Heberling came out with two rebels at the point of the bayonet, and always said he killed a rebel Colonel in the fort.”
From The Story of Our Regiment: A History of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers.
“While in charge of the guard one day [at Fort Stedman, VA] William Heberling called me [Sergt. Henry Campbell] to his post at the gate of the fort. He was blood from head to foot. We took him in and found the ball had barely cut the lower edge of his ear. He did not know it until he saw the blood. William was a good soldier. Just before this the one hundred had made their famous charge [at Petersburg] under Captain [Jeremiah Z.] Brown, and Heberling came out with two rebels at the point of the bayonet, and always said he killed a rebel Colonel in the fort.”
From The Story of Our Regiment: A History of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers.
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