147th PA Volunteers

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• Ancestry Military Records
• Carbon County (Postcard History:Pennsylvania) ~ book by Rebecca Rabenold-Finsel
• Civil War Pension Records
• Civil War Service Records
• Confederate Research Sources: A Guide to Archive Collections ~ book by James C. Neagles

• Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg ~ book by James McPherson

• In Search of Confederate Ancestors ~ book by J. H. Segars

• Smokestacks and Black Diamonds: A History of Carbon County, Pennsylvania ~ book by Joan Campion

• Tracing Your Civil War Ancestor ~ book by Bertram Hawthorne Groene

Originally Co N, 28th Reg't PA Vols

Officers from Carbon County

• Col John Craig; Capt 28th PVI, Co N; Maj 147th 10/10/1862; Col 6/14/1865

Rank of Private unless otherwise stated:

• Capt Nicholas C. Glace; 1st Sgt to 2nd Lt 2/15/1862; 1st Lt 10/10/1862; Capt 3/1/1864; resigned 7/22/1864

• Sgt John Kindelan

• Sgt William T. West; vet

• Musician Newman F. Dunham

• Musician Joseph E. Gabrio

• Jacob Beer; vet

• Thomas Black

• William Butler; vet

• Aaron Green; enlisted 1861; killed 11/25/1864 Ringgold GA; vet

• A.Y. Green; from Knapp's PA Bat'y 10/29/1861

• William Farres; enlisted 1861; died 1863 Falmouth VA

• Jacob Horn

• John Kent; enlisted 1861; died 1863 Alexandria

• Wayne Kents; enlisted 1861; died 1863 Alexandria

• Charles Knoppenberger; enlisted 1861; killed 9/17/1862 Antietam

• Andrew Kresge; vet

• Pauline Kresge; enlisted 1861; killed 1864 Kennesaw GA; vet

• Jacob Kuntzman; vet

• Levi Mushardt; enlisted 1862

• Emmett Sayres; Vet Res Corps date unknown

• George Searls

• Philip Sebras; discharged on Surgeon's Certificate 1/3/1863

• John Shiner; Knapp's PA Bat'y 10/29/1861

• Owen Smith; vet

• John Sowers; enlisted 1861; mortally wounded at Pine Knob GA; died 7/1864 Nashville; vet

• William Steinmetz

Information from History of the Counties of Lehigh and Carbon, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Alfred Mathews and Austin N. Hungerford, Everts and Richards, Philadelphia PA, 1884.

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