10th PA Reserves

This story was published by the New York Times in December 1863 related to a train derailment that left soldiers of the Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps killed and injured. Last night, at about 6 o’clock, the second P.M. train from Brandy Station ran off the embankment at Bristoe Station, destroying several yards of the track, the locomotive and four cars, beside killing four men and wounding fifteen.

I was born in North Shenango Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, Feb. 3, 1841. My postoffice was Stewartsville, Pa. When the war broke out I was attending the academy at Espyville, Pa. from which I expected to graduate soon and then take up the study of medicine at Philadelphia, as my parents had me slated for an M.D. It so happened that a Company was being organized of Allegheny College Students.

James McCahon was a member of the Jefferson College Class of 1863 when he enrolled as a private in Company D, 10th Pennsylvania Reserves on April 27, 1861. He was 20 years old at...

This article is dedicated to my grandfather’s ancestors. William H. Wagner was born on August 9th, 1823, in Stoney Creek, Shade Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Michael Wagner Jr. and Hannah...

Hodgens, Samuel Graham | Son of Thomas and Mary (Graham), born Canonsburg, Pa., Nov. 15, 1842; medical student Philadelphia, Jefferson Medical College, '66; United States Army, 10th Pennsylvania Reserves: wounded, prisoner of war, '61;...