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Data provided by Nelson Ray Tennis, e-mail NRTennis@aol.com
History of the 127th Regiment Pa. Volunteers
reprinted in 1998 by Higginson Book Company
148 Washington St., Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Notes; Samuel enlisted in Union Army during Civil War, Was Mustered in at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg on 9th of Aug., 1862 at the age of 17. His regiment was the Pa. 127th, Company C. They left Hbg. by train to Baltimore, Md. where they camped in the streets the first night. They marched from Baltimore to Wash., D. C., past the capital bldg. and set up camp near where the Chain bridge crosses the Potomac River. They were to keep the rebels from crossing. After months of camp, they marched toward Fredricksburg, Va., where they formed with the 20th Mass., and the 12th Mich., to form the Halls Brigade whom were the first to cross the Rapahanock River by portable pontoon bridges. Samuel was wounded by a bullett in his face. 12,000 Union troops killed or wounded that day of 12 Dec 1862.
On his roll call card for that day he was listed as killed in action. On his next roll call card for end of Dec., it says( wounded), in D. C. General hospital. Back then, they only had roll call, after a battle, or once a month. He was hospitalized till March of 1863 and honorably discharged and mustered out the 29th of May 1863, about 14 months before the battle of Gettysburg.