Lt R. Blackwell 4th Texas
Sergeant
- Joined
- Mar 28, 2014
- Location
- Atlanta
See signature below. Helped smash the Peach Orchard salient and drive almost to Cemetery Ridge. Survived the war.
See signature below. Helped smash the Peach Orchard salient
Pretty much every Ammerman, Boggs, and Parsons (among others) from Centre County wraps back into my family tree. These are the two I know of where they were at the time.
My 3x's Great Grandfather Joseph Ammerman
via SAC 47532264
Private, Company B, 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry. At war's end, the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry and the 22nd Pennsylvania Cavalry were consolidated to form the 3rd Pennsylvania Provisional Cavalry. Joseph was mustered out with Company B, 3rd PA Provisional Cavalry on October 31, 1865. Born in Greene County, Pennsylvania. Filed for a pension on June 6, 1888, application number 658,527, certificate number 490,093. Wife Jemima Ammerman filed for a widow's pension on June 22, 1897, application number 657,144, certificate 453,952. Disability cited as rheumatism, unable to do manual labor in the 1890 Veteran's Census.
My understanding is this is one of his brothers. His Find A Grave has a picture of a mass grave stone not an individual.
David Ammerman
per Find A Grave:
Residence: Flemming Co, Centre Co,PA.
Enlistment Age-23. Laborer
Enlisted: Aug 11,1862 at Milesburg,PA. Private
Mustered into Co "B" 148th PA Infantry.
Listed, wounded Jul 2,1863 at Gettysburg, PA
Died of wounds at 1st Division,2nd Corps Hospital Gettysburg He was wounded in the fight for the Wheatfield, between 6:50 and 8:00 p.m. he was wounded near the present day Ayres Ave. He died at the 2nd Corps Hospital, and buried on the Jacob Schwartz's Farm. 2nd Corp Hospital was located near the end of the present day Hospital Road
See signature below. Helped smash the Peach Orchard salient and drive almost to Cemetery Ridge. Survived the war.
John Heiser at Gettysburg
On July 4th my ancestor was at Gettysburg. Wounded in the leg with the 11th Pennsylvania
3 is better than one! My ancestor hailed from Woodville, MS, down in the southwest corner of the state. How about yours?21st Mississippi !!
If you saw my previous post, I had 3 ancestors in Company H, 17th Mississippi. One was discharged due to illness early in 1861. Same brigade as your ancestor.
Had the same story, brothers on the battlefield and the same wish to know. Guessing men at least knew their siblings were somewhere based on which Corps were there? Have you looked for diaries, letters and journals by men in your relatives' regiments? You frequently find mentions of names. I'd looked for way too many years for exact circumstances of JPK's death. A book I'd never of, written about his regiment is in Hathitrust. A woman wrote it not long after the war and included things you can't find all these years later. Sure enough she recorded what happened to him down to the time of day. There were so many books about so many regiments you never know. Try Hathitrust, LoC, Internet Archives, Google Books, Project Gutenberg and really, too many college and university collections to name.
You always sound like you've done your homework extremely well but if you could use more help maybe run up a signal flag here ( thread ). I've belonged here for awhile but never stop being amazed by our members who can find pretty much anything about anyone.
Guessing you've seen images from 2nd Corps Hospital? If not there are several around.
I hadn't seen the 2nd corps hospital. I'm afraid my own research has gotten side tracked doing research with the NPS. I do know there is a monument to the 18th here . South of Gettysburg on South Confederate Ave. according to the site. I just found this account of the 18th Cav and there is a rather disturbing account in it :
Kilpatrick moved early on the morning of the 4th towards Maryland, passing through Emmittsburg, and by the flank of Lee's army, striking Ewell's wagon train at midnight, near Monterey Springs, as it was crossing South Mountain. He immediately charged, scattering the train guard, captured two pieces of artillery, a thousand prisoners, and two hundred wagons and ambulances. The head of the rebel army, which was now in full retreat, was following close upon his path, and Kilpatrick was obliged to drive at a break-neck speed down the narrow mountain road, to escape with his captures, some of the wagons and ambulances loaded with the severely wounded, being overturned, and plunged with their stuffering freight headlong into the gorge below. At daylight, the foot of the mountain was reached, and the wagons, which were still-upon wheels, were driven into park at Smithfield, and burned.
Those poor men!
Post Script: The same sight has muster rolls for Cav and Infantry. I need to get home and open my tree I have so far but it looks like Some of the other brothers were with them. I know some of them are cousins. All Ammermans from that area are related in that time frame. More as I dig.
My ancestor hailed from Woodville, MS, down in the southwest corner of the state. How about yours?
TY It's in my Birthday wishlist on Amazon now.Our very own @Eric Wittenberg's One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863 has a good description of the fight at Monterey Pass and Kilpatrick's actions after the battle of Gettysburg.
Ryan
TY It's in my Birthday wishlist on Amazon now.
Our very own @Eric Wittenberg's One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863 has a good description of the fight at Monterey Pass and Kilpatrick's actions after the battle of Gettysburg.
Ryan
TY It's in my Birthday wishlist on Amazon now.
Monterey pass was one of the sites we visited during our September to Remember bus trip with Eric in 2017:Yes, it'd be an awesome birthday gift. Fair warning, you won't put it down until you've read it cover to cover...
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Monterey pass was one of the sites we visited during our September to Remember bus trip with Eric in 2017:
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