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77th Pennsylvania Infantry
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Thomas Lavelle
Thomas Lavelle Rank Unknown |
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Contact Name: Danalee LavelleContact Homepage: www.geocities.com/lavelle95608
Date Added: 2/14/2008
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Thomas Charles Smith
Thomas Charles Smith - Private |
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Contact Name: Diane LoweDate Added: 9/7/2013
| Company C | |
Zachariah Taylor Hilbish
Zachariah Taylor Hilbish - Private |
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Enlisted as a Private on 8 March 1865.
Mustered out on 6 December 1865 at Victoria, TX.
Contact Name: Eric StoneMustered out on 6 December 1865 at Victoria, TX.
Date Added: 5/12/2010
| Company E | |
Thomas C. Parrish
Thomas C. Parrish - Private |
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M.I. 7 March 1865 at Pittsburgh
Age at enrolement: 21
Height: 6 ft.
Hair: Dark
Complexion: Dark
Eyes: Grey
Occupation: Black Smith
Born: Pennsylvania
Regement: 2d E - 77 Infantry
Died: In Hospital at Camp Irwin, Texas 25 Sep 1865
CAMP IRWIN. Camp Irwin, also called Camp Placedo, was a Mexican Warqv encampment established in October 1846 on Placedo Creek near the Port Lavaca-Victoria road, twelve miles west of Port Lavaca in Victoria County. It was named for James R. Irwin, chief quartermaster of Winfield Scott's army during the Mexico City campaign, and served as a rendezvous for troops assigned to Gen. John E. Wool'sqv Center Division and as a temporary military supply depot. Military units that used the camp were Col. John J. Hardin's First Regiment, Illinois Volunteers; Col. Humphrey Marshall's regiment of Kentucky Volunteers; Capt. John S. Williams's independent company, Kentucky Volunteers; and Col. Jonas E. Thomas's regiment of Tennessee Volunteers. Accounts describe the site as low, swampy ground where disease was common and conditions were barely tolerable.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: George W. Cullum, Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. George C. Furber, The Twelve Months Volunteer (Cincinnati: James, 1848). Edward D. Mansfield, The Mexican War (New York: Barnes, 1848).
Charles D. Spurlin
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/CC/qcc44.html
Contact Name: B. ParrishAge at enrolement: 21
Height: 6 ft.
Hair: Dark
Complexion: Dark
Eyes: Grey
Occupation: Black Smith
Born: Pennsylvania
Regement: 2d E - 77 Infantry
Died: In Hospital at Camp Irwin, Texas 25 Sep 1865
CAMP IRWIN. Camp Irwin, also called Camp Placedo, was a Mexican Warqv encampment established in October 1846 on Placedo Creek near the Port Lavaca-Victoria road, twelve miles west of Port Lavaca in Victoria County. It was named for James R. Irwin, chief quartermaster of Winfield Scott's army during the Mexico City campaign, and served as a rendezvous for troops assigned to Gen. John E. Wool'sqv Center Division and as a temporary military supply depot. Military units that used the camp were Col. John J. Hardin's First Regiment, Illinois Volunteers; Col. Humphrey Marshall's regiment of Kentucky Volunteers; Capt. John S. Williams's independent company, Kentucky Volunteers; and Col. Jonas E. Thomas's regiment of Tennessee Volunteers. Accounts describe the site as low, swampy ground where disease was common and conditions were barely tolerable.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: George W. Cullum, Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. George C. Furber, The Twelve Months Volunteer (Cincinnati: James, 1848). Edward D. Mansfield, The Mexican War (New York: Barnes, 1848).
Charles D. Spurlin
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/CC/qcc44.html
Date Added: 12/6/2006
| Company E | |
William Woozley
William Woozley Rank Unknown |
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Contact Name: Diane HungateDate Added: 5/22/2007
| Company K | |
James A. Haus
James A. Haus - Captain |
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Contact Name: Frank HausContact Homepage: http://members.tripod.com/alina_frank/frankfamilyline.html
Date Added: 8/20/2006
| Company K | |
Adam Pontz
Adam Pontz - 1st Sergeant |
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Contact Name: EJ RossmanDate Added: 12/22/2005