Addison G. Mason, 5th Pennsylvania Reserves
Addison Gordon Mason, superintendent of Exeter Colliery, Lehigh Valley Coal Company, Pittston, was born in Monroeton, Bradford Co., Pa., October 16, 1839, a son of Gorden F. and Mary A. (Mason) Mason, both of...
George Dare, 5th Pennsylvania Reserves
George Dare, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fifth Reserve regiment, entered the service in June, 1861, as Major. In the actions of the Seven Days on the Peninsula, at Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg,...
Joseph Washington Fisher, 5th Pennsylvania Reserves
JOSEPH WASHINGTON FISHER, was born in Northumberland county on the 16th of October, 1814. Two years after, his father died, leaving a widow and several small children, of whom he was youngest. His education...
John Irvin Gregg, 5th Pennsylvania Reserves
JOHN IRVIN GREGG, Colonel of the Sixteenth cavalry, Brevet Brigadier and Major-General, was born on the 26th of July, 1826, at Bellefonte, Centre county, where his family had resided for nearly a century. His...
The Story of Lt. Hardman P. Petrikin as told by Capt. William M. Robbins,...
Born in 1832, Hardman Philip PetrikinThe surname, of Scotch origin, appears to alternate between the spellings of “Petriken” and “Petrikin”; for this article I will refer to the latter spelling, but the former is...
The Life and Death of James Harvey Larrimer, Major, 5th Pennsylvania Reserves
James Harvey Larrimer, or “Harvey” as he was more commonly referred to, was the oldest of several children born to Robert and Margaret (Lucas) Larimore; his birth occurring sometime in 1828, possibly in the...
Colonel Seneca G. Simmons, 5th Pennsylvania Reserves
SENECA GALUSHA SIMMONS, Colonel of the Fifth Reserve regiment and Major of the Fourth United States Infantry, was born on the 27th of December, 1808, in Windsor county, Vermont. He was the son of...
The Medical Case of Theron Hayward, Co. F, 5th PA Reserves
Case 263.
"Private Theron Hayward, Co. F, 5th Pennsylvania Reserves, aged 28 years, was wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13th, 1862, by a conoidal musket ball, which entered in front of and...
The Medical Case of James Ainsworth, Co. I, 5th PA Reserves
CASE 499.
Private James Ainsworth, Company I, 5th Pennsylvania Reserves; age 19; admitted from regimental hospital February 12, 1864. Acute dysentery. Pneumonia of an aesthetic type supervened almost immediately after his admission. Treatment: Dover’s...
John L. Wright, 5th Pennsylvania Reserves
John Lowdon Wright, b. October 1st, 1838; enlisted May 15th, 1861, in Fifth Reg't Penn'a Reserves; commissioned Second Lieutenant, Co. K, same Reg't, June 19th, 1861; com. Adjutant, same Reg't., May 27th, 1863; com....
