Who were the Brandywine Guards?

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PRVCHS Admin
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First and foremost, I would like to thank Kevin Brown and Amy King for their hard work, dedication and devotion to the men of the Brandywine Guards, Company A of the 1st Pennsylvania Reserves. It is due to their research and generosity in sharing the fruit of their labors with us, that we can now put a name to each face, save one, in this iconic photograph. Thanks Amy and Kevin!1

Captain Mott Hooton
2nd Lt. Brinton J. Parke
1st Lt. Cheney W. Nields
Musician Charles P. Cunningham
1st Sgt. Philip Price
Cpl. Wilson W. Matlack
Pvt. Issac R. Smith
Pvt. Joseph B. Darlington
Pvt. David R. P. Brinton
Cpl. Albert S. Evans
Pvt. Myers Chalfant
Pvt. Lewis Robinson
Pvt. Joseph Fisher
Pvt. Thomas Spackman
Cpl. George W. Palmer
Pvt. Samuel H. Smith
Pvt. William H. Turner
Pvt. Jacob Herrington
Pvt. James Bayard Shellady
Pvt. J. Wilson Irwin
Pvt. Joseph Scott
Pvt. Thomas McCann
Cpl. Hanford Rigg
Pvt. Charles P. Stern
Cpl. John E. Gillespie
Sgt. Joseph James
Pvt. Charles H. Ingram
Pvt. John Buchanan
Pvt. Thomas R. Ferry
Pvt. Lewis M. Prall
Pvt. Joseph Way
Pvt. Edward Davis
Sgt. James E. Mooney
Pvt. Perlee W. Harvey
Pvt. Charles Hickman
Pvt. Charles Colwell
Pvt. Levi Smith
Pvt. Abner Hoopes
Sgt. Lewis M. Woodward
Pvt. Albert Carpenter
Pvt. George Large
Cpl. John N. Bennett
Unknown
Pvt. John H. Law
Pvt. Eli Catron
Pvt. Joseph Proudfitt
  1. The men identified are written in a Diary of Mott Hooton.

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