91st Pennsylvania Infantry, company K, register of deserters

Date: 4 Dec 1861 to 10 Jul 1865
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

[This is a transcription of the register of deserters in company K of the 91st Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry (1861-1865)]

[A list of everything included in the 91st Pennsylvania's descriptive books, with links to transcriptions, is available here.]

[source: Descriptive book, company K, 91st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 94 (Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917)]

Register of Deserters.

No.	Names.	Rank.	When.	From Where.	Remarks.
1	Dennison Green [?]	private	Nov 30th [?]	Camp Chase	with uniform
2	John Harrison	"	Decr 22 [?]	Philada
3	Clifford Henry	"	Octr 16th	"
4	Darragh Henry	"	Nov 18th	" "
5	Dougherty John	"	Decr 22	" "
6	Hurld Robert	"	Nov 28th	" "
7	Latier [?] John	"	Oct 28	" "
8	Conners Patrick	"	Decr 16	" "
9	McCormick John	"	Decr 16	" "
10	Messenger Enoch	"	Decr 29	" "
11	Stuart Robert	"	Decr 20	" "
12	Welsh Michael	"	Decr 18	" "
13	Knowles Thomas B	"	Jany 14th 1862	" "
14	McDermott Robert	"	" 19th "	" "
15	Ruths Frederick	"	Decr 26th 1861	" "
16	Scovel John B.	"	Decr 24th 1861	From Hospital at Philada
17	Weichselbaum Jacob	"	Jany 19th 1862	Camp Chase Philad
18	Hugh Martin	"	March 23d	Franklin Square Barrack Returd ly [??] Desertion July 31st 1862
	[the name on entry 18 is crossed out]
19	George J. Crouse [?]	"	April 26th	Carrol Barracks Washington Returd Aug 20th 1863 Court Marshal Returned + Discharged [the rest is lost in the binding]
	[the name on entry 19 is crossed out, and 'Regained' is written above it]
20	Owen W. Macken	"	July 26 1862	Occequean [?] River Virginia
21	Neill McWilliams	"	April 4th	Franklin Square Washington
22	James McCarty	"	Sept 13th	at Washington
23	John Groff [?]	"	" 18th	while on march from Monocacy to South Mountain
24	William Griffin	"	May 13 /63	From Hospital at Philadelphia May 13th 1863
25	John Groff [?]	"	April 29	near Chancellorsville While on March April 29th 1863
	[the name for entry 25 is crossed out]
	Matthew McIlvaney	"	Augt 25th 1863	Hospital	at West Philada having his gun + [illegible]
	[the entire line is crossed out, more fully than other crossed-out lines are, which suggests to me that he didn't really desert]
26	William Kelley	"	May 1863	Hospital
7	Hugh Martin	"	" "	"
8	John Blum	"	Nov 1864	Furlough	Rec'd 10 days Furlough [illegible] Returned Dec 1864
	[the name is crossed out, and 'Regained' is written above it]
9	Edwin Blake	"	May 31 /65	in the field	Recruit from Draft Rendezvous as Sub [illegible]
30	Jno Perry	"	June 1st /65	"	" " " " " "
1	Mark Durkin [?]	"	" 24 /65	"	" " " " " "
2	Mark Osburn	"	" "	"	" " " " " "
3	Wm Simon [?]	"	" "	"	" " " " " "
4	Fred Knickerbocker [?]	"	" "	"	" " " " " "
5	Thos L Thompson	"	" "	"	" " " " " "
	[The personal name and middle initial are crossed out; 'Wm' seems to be written above them]
6	Thos Larner [?]	"	" "	"	Assigned to Regt + never reported
7	Gerhard Schmall	"	" "	"	" " " "
8	Dan Murphy	"	" "	"	" " " "
39	John [?] Dennison [?]	"	" "	"	" " " "