Tag: Mechanics’ Infantry
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Florentine H. Staub, Co. D, 3rd Pennsylvania Reserves
Florentine H. Straub was born January 15, 1831 in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. At the age of twenty-one, he married Susan Niehart on September 5, 1852. Together they resided in Berks County, Pa, and between 1853 and 1860, and would have three sons, Francis, Albert, and Florentine Jr. Straub enrolled in the “Mechanics’ Rifle Company” on…
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Davies, Samuel, Co. D, 3rd Pennsylvania Reserves
Samuel Davies was born in Reading, May 4, 1839, and until he was fifteen years old he attended the public schools. He then entered the Philadelphia & Reading railroad shops, in order to become a machinist, and he remained there four years. He next spent about a year and a half in the lathe department…