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Drafted as a Private on 20 August 1863.
Transferred out on 1 June 1865.
Transferred into 53rd Infantry Regiment Pennsylvania on 1 June 1865.
Mustered out 53rd Infantry Regiment Pennsylvania on 30 June 1865.

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ALFRED WAS A COLOR GUARD WITH CO. B AT THE WHEATFIELD ON DAY TWO AT GETTYSBURG. HE WAS HIT BY A MINI BALL IN THE LARGE BUCKLE THAT THE FLAG STANDARD GOES INTO ON HIS BELT AND TAKEN TO THE FIELD HOSPITAL. THE BALL DID NOT PENATRATE HIS BODY AND HE RETURNED TO ACTION. HE WAS, HOWEVER, WOUNDED TWO TIMES LATER IN THE WAR. MY MOTHER, HELEN MOORE, LATER HELEN BRUBAKER, TALKS ABOUT SITTING ON HER GRANDFATHER'S LAP WHEN SHE WAS A SMALL GIRL AND HE WOULD SING CIVIL WAR SONGS TO HER.

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Wounded at Chancellorsville May 3 1863. Transfer to Vet Res Corp Sept 1 1863.

Killed at Chancellorsville May 3 1863

Wounded at Gettysburg. Died on Oct 6 1863 at Harrisburg Army Hospital.

Mustered into service on August 28, 1862.
Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, March 14, 1864

Pvt. Peter D. Burkett,1827-1910, was my great-great-grandfather. He had during his long life five wives, possibly only four to whom he was formally married. I am descended from his first wife, Lavina Hawthorne, who died during the Civil War, while Peter was serving in the long campaigns stretching from Chancellorsville and Gettysburg to the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and the siege of Petersburg, to the surrender at Appomattox. Lavina was a descendant of the distinguished Fisher family of Pennsylvania who settled with William Penn. Peter was Pennsylvania 'Dutch', i.e., German, whose ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. His daughter, Lydia, whom Peter abandoned to relatives of his wife after the war and her mother, Lavina's, death, and, as a girl, was 'farmed out' to neighbors as a maid and farmworker, married Daniel Deeter, a private during the war with the 211th Pennsylvania, which also participated in the Petersburg siege and the surrender at Appomattox. Daniel and Lydia were the parents of my maternal grandfather's father, Charles Palmer Deeter (1860-1928).

Peter Burkett was from Pennfield Pa. I think? He is buried in a small faimly plot south of Punxitany (sp) However he enlisted in Indiana Pa. He really my wifes ancestor. His name is on the 148th plaque on the Pa. monument. He was 33 when he enlisted. He survived the war.

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Wounded in the shoulder at Chancellorsville. Pro. to corp. Sep 9 1863. Wounded in the wrist at Petersburg. Died in hospital in Philadelphia Pa. Buried at Mt. Moriah National Cemetery in Phila.

Wounded at Chancellorsville May 3 1863.

My great-great-grandfather he served with this unit from 15 August 1862 to 31 June 1865.

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PVT, Co. H, 148th Pennsylvania, 1 and 3rd Bde/1 Div/II Corps, AOP. Mustered in 16 Aug 62. Killed in action Chancellorsville 3 May 63. Buried on field and later reinterred at Fredericksburg national Cemetery. The 148th suffered 25 KIA and 100 WIA at the defeat of Chancellorsville.

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